2009/3/1 Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
> Eliot Miranda a écrit :
>>
>> I need to point out that unless the various communities can start building
>> their disparate and diverging images form a micro-kernel image I don't see
>> how improved execution technology is going to be adopted by the community.
>>  I'm working hard on a VM that will be potentially 10x the current Squeak
>> VM
>> for Smalltalk intensive benchmarks.  This VM will be source code
>> compatible
>> and bytecode compatible but likely it will not be image compatible as it
>> will use a streamlined object representation that doesn't use compact
>> classes.  The only way I can see this being adopted by the community at
>> large is if the community starts building images form microkernels.
>
> maybe a silly question (I have no idea of what is involved): would
> converting an image from the current format to the one your VM will require
> be an option ?
>
converting an object format does not makes objects behave differently , right?
Ask yourself, why you doing a lot of cleanup, throwing away obsolete
stuff and replacing with better one in Pharo, and why we coudn't do
much the same with VM? :)

> Stef
>
>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.