On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Martin McClure wrote:

> 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.

yes this is why I always wanted to have tests to make sure that we do  
not break them.

Stef
>
> -Martin
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