[squeak-dev] A Bootstrap Compiler

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 12:59:06 UTC 2010


On 28 December 2010 13:23, Nikolay Suslov <nsuslovi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What i like about image-side compiler that i can use the
>> metaprogramming and late-binding capabilities
>> in language for compiling the source.
>> While C compiler having no such flexibility, and good to have when you
>> plan to freeze things for ages.
>>
>>
>
> Thinking, that nobody here will argue about image-side compiler and it's
> capabilities.. etc.
>
> But, Yoshiki is talking about, that you could "generate a growable image
> file from all
> text files, or make deep changes to the system without shooting yourself".

But nobody forcing you to hack existing obejcts of environment you are
running in.
How many people you seen who wanted to hack C compiler for
bootstrapping own C application?

This means that you can implement things to build a separate object
memory graph, which can be held in byte array,
and then simply save it to file.

> And this is really awesome and so long waited step!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Nikolay
>
>
>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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