Re: [Help-smalltalk] faster startup 2/n

[Paolo Bonzini]

> It seems to me that this has other benefits than just speed; making it 
> easier to re-load images that link with C libraries.

Note that this has not changed the behavior; it simply moved things from 
load-time to save-time.  See the init_dictionary_on_image_load diffs.

> Is it necessarily correct to kill a call-in process, though? Say the 
> process in question was a GUI event that triggered a long-running 
> calculation. There wouldn't be anywhere to return a result to, but it 
> would be the side-effects (displaying the results in the GUI) that were 
> important.

I would do this in a separate process.  The fact that call-ins are a 
separate process is an implementation detail (see a recent post by Eliot 
Miranda in comp.lang.smalltalk about how call-ins are handled in 
VisualWorks -- note that this part of the GNU Smalltalk design was done 
without knowing how VW does it).

Paolo