On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Martin McClure wrote:

> Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>
>> But what if you compress the change log ?
>
> Perhaps it's time to finally get rid of source pointers and just keep
> the source code as objects in the image, referenced directly from the
> CompiledMethod.
>
> External sources were necessary 25 years ago when an image without
> sources consumed 3/4 of the total RAM of the machine, but it's not  
> like
> that anymore.
>
+100

I did that once as an experiment: searching for strings in all the  
code gets *fast*.

        Marcus

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