On 13.01.2010, at 23:51, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> I seem to remember a hack that allowed the sources file to be compressed on disk. It would be uncompressed on-the-fly. Does someone remember that hack? I couldn't find it.
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> CompressedSourceStream & SystemDictionary>>compressSources is in our 3.8 derived Teleplace images.

Ah, great, thanks! Scott also pointed me to this:

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3510

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> There's also the scheme that discards the sources altogether by using a compressed array of temp names at the end of each method.  See SystemDictionary>>abandonSources.

> best
> Eliot
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> Background: The new OLPC XO does not use a compressing filesystem anymore. So the Etoys sources file size hurts more than before.
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