[Cuis] Transcript on top when saving the image

[H. Hirzel]

On 5/1/15, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> 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!

Great, could you please point me to the archive entries in that list?

--Hannes

> 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
>>
>
>
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