Marcus Denker wrote: > I personally think that with today's resources (my laptop has 4GB of > Ram, not 256Kb), we should rethink some of the design-desicions taken > 30 years ago. But many people are violently against this, fighting a > battle by citing "embedded systems". If one manages to convince them > that "embedded" these days does not equal "small", they mumble about > "smart dust" and obscure things just to be able to fight for hacks > not needed these days... > > Exploring new ways with the resources we have today does not mean > that everything needs to live in the image. It means that one can > affort to invest resources into very general, reusable solution to > problems like this.
Didn't Tim change CompiledMethods so they referred to their source using a pointer so the source could be stored anywhere? > One interesting aspect of the source/changes "outside the image" is > that this problem of data that is not used often and thus can live on > disk vs. memory is a general one. Hacking it into the system just for > the sources is just that: a hack. Providing a general, scalable way > to let objects live on disk that are not needed is much better, as > everyone can than use it. The system can use it for other resources > (fonts, images...). Programmers can use it to keep their domain data > on disk automatically. You mean something like LOOM? I would love to have that :) _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
