Adrian Lienhard wrote:
> Yes, in "normal" use of Pharo, holding the sources in memory would  
> only consume a fraction of the available RAM. Some applications,  
> however, have several hundred images running at the same time on a  
> server. In this case the picture looks very different again.

It would be easy to strip all sources from production images, but the 
simple way of doing that would mean any debugging would be done on 
decompiled code.

> 
> I think Marcus' idea of swapping in/out ressources is very  
> interesting. We could get rid of the ancient sources handling but  
> still have a low, or even lower, memory footprint.
> 

This would be even better.
ImageSegments are a start in this direction.

-Martin

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