Fast bytecode loader (was Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Squeak vision)

Bernhard Pieber bernhard at pieber.com
Thu Jul 16 17:51:55 UTC 2009


Am 16.07.2009 um 18:38 schrieb Eliot Miranda:
> This has been done for Smalltalk before.  The Digitalk SLL mechanism  
> loaded code using a mechanism essentially isomorphic to image  
> segments.  The VisualWorks parcel mechanism is more like a reference  
> stream but optimised for speed of loading (and because its not tied  
> to the VM's object format is much more flexible and future-proof,  
> and turned out to be very fast).
Just an addition: I think that the version management system Envy  
(only used in VA Smalltalk nowadays) also loads bytecode. So I would  
even say that bytecode loading is the default way in commercial  
Smalltalks.

Cheers,
Bernhard



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