[Cuis] Transcript on top when saving the image

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Germán,

Yes, it is annoying. Apologies. I'll remove it.

In any case, let me tell what is it about.

I'd like to be able to bootstrap Cuis from sources. This means that the 
source code, and not the image, could become the main Cuis artifact. I 
hope this could make it easy to produce equivalent Cuis images in 
several flavors: Closures32Bit, Closures64Bit, Spur32Bit, Spur64Bit. I 
haven't really done anything about this yet, but recently Edgar (on the 
SqueakRos Spanish Smalltalk list) made me aware of Guille Polito's Oz, 
Hazelnut, Onion for Pharo. It seems a lot of what I need is already done!

So, for some weeks I've been working a bit on making Cuis easier to 
bootstrap. I've been reducing the amount of "live" objects that need to 
be saved when saving the image. That list in the transcript shows 
non-nil classVars and instClassVars. Before that, Processes and Globals. 
NotNil classVars at image save were halved. More interesting is 
Processes. There are usually several running processes in Cuis. Now, for 
image save, all of them are terminated, and a single new process is 
forked, to be used only for image save and startup.

As a side effect of these changes, image size went down from 7.6MB to 6MB!

Anyway, when there is not a single object (Besides Classes and Methods) 
that can not be re-created at startup, then that image can be 
bootstrapped from sources.

So, that info on the Transcript shows the current state of this effort.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 5/1/2015 2:12 PM, Germán Arduino wrote:
> I see this behavior in the latest versions..... to my is..... annoying :)
>
> May exist some motivation that I'm not be able to understand ?
>
>
> -- 
> Saludos / Regards,
> Germán Arduino
>