On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:35:14 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> >> (But nevertheless, I discovered some differences between gst and 
> >> gst-remote, e.g. the order is very important for gst-remote in
> >> which you load the several files into the vm. Otherwise,
> >> gst-remote will print out warnings about not existent classes.)
> > 
> > It might be a clue to where the problem is, though.
> 
> Indeed.  gst uses the builtin compiler (written in C), while
> gst-remote uses the Parser and Compiler packages.

Why is that? Technical considerations or the need for
more control over what happens when?

> Stephen Compall would be the right person to look into it (he was the 
> one stress-testing the Smalltalk compiler to the point that it became 
> usable for gst-remote), but he's not been active for a while.

maybe, if we make enough noise, he'll hear us :-)

s.


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