[Cuis] Transcript on top when saving the image

Germán Arduino garduino at gmail.com
Sat May 2 15:27:03 CDT 2015


Hi Hannes:

The list is SqueakRos https://ar.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/squeakRos/info
and you (and any other) are more than welcome if want to join!

2015-05-02 16:11 GMT-03:00 H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:

> 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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