On Nov 7, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>>
>>> 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*.
>>
> I'd say +16M
>
> This is what i got when condensing sources:
> 16249263 2009-10-19 20:25 PharoV10.sources
yes, but nevertheless, this is how much percent of the Ram of your
machine?
Two notes:
- We could compress the source-strings. That should lead to something
like
5MB increase.
- We should invest into a general mechanism of swapping in unused
objects on demand.
It's fun that there is a special case for the source, but all the
other resources happily live
in the image (bitmaps, sounds... in general objects not part of the
working set, e.g. I guess 80% of
all compiled methods...).
Marcus
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