On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Bryce Kampjes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I was afraid that mentioning that would cause confusion. Exupery is a
> JIT written in Smalltalk, the compiler runs as a normal Smalltalk
> process in the image just like any other Smalltalk code. It needs a VM
> with a few hooks to allow the native code it generates to be executed.
> The VMs I provide have both those hooks and the closure bytecodes.
> Support for both Exupery and closures is in the VMs.
>
> Exupery itself is a normal Monticello package which is available via
> SqueakSource or Universes, if you haven't loaded it and started it then
> there is no risk.

To summarize: the Exupery VM has closure support for closure images,
use them and things will work ok. Don't try to use the JIT or you will
have problem (but you won't do that accidentally so you shouldn't
care).

-- 
Damien Cassou
http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st

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