[squeak-dev] Lessons learned from (Re: Faster fibonacci)

Keith keithy at consultant.com
Mon Apr 29 23:15:34 UTC 2019


Years ago I was trying to rationalise all the various functionality of 
Smalltalk/SmalltalkImage across
forks. I also wanted to support a scheme that would handle being 
bootstrapped from sources.

i.e. the startup process may load in or unload a number of classes from 
sources at an early stage, and when the time came to think about 
#startUp they may not have been #initialised, (the #startUp might be 
their initialisation).

So I vaguely recollect that when I had a go at re-doing the startuplist 
I removed this responsibility to a class of its own, called 
StartupManager, and removed the class var that holds the list in favour 
of a voting system.

I found some code hiding away (somewhat obfuscated)

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~keithy/cuis/System-Support_StartupManager/revision/1#StartupManager-into-Cuis2/1-System-Support-StartupManager.install/0002/StartupManager-(startup-shutdown)-int.1.st

Looking through the comments I find

StatupManager

New simple startUp shutDown protocol

classes implement #startUpPriority #shutDownPriority to register.
Note: this code could be hosted on a different class, such as 
SmalltalkImage,

The startUp and shutdownLists are compiled by looking at all 
implementors of:'
#startUpPriority and #shutDownPriority'
Priorities are: #first #earliest #earlier #early #normal #late #later 
#latest #last'

As you can imagine this was very much a first attempt at resolving these 
problems.

Keith
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