Re: [Help-smalltalk] .st file naming

[Jan Vrany]

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 19:56 +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:28:14PM +0100, Jan Vrany wrote:
> 
> > But then the package to which certain code element belongs would 
> > depend on in which order you load packages. Very bad IMO. 
> > Alternatively, you may have it as prerequisite of every package, 
> > but that's bit silly :-) 
> 
> Well, if you run VisualGST.. you will load it first. 

Right, but still, what prevents you from loading say
HTTP server first and VisualGST later? 

> When I
> run my deployment image.. I don't load it as size and performance
> matters (I deploy on a ARM7TDMI system..)
> 
> 
> > 
> > > The benefit of a registry is that
> > > depending on your storage structure you don't need to walk all
> > > classes/compiled methods to find the ones that belong to a package.
> > > 
> > True. But how often one need to do that? When you commit or when
> > one want to display code that belongs to a package. Both are not
> > performance-critical operations and walking through all classes is
> > fast enough. 
> > 
> > Anyway, having this feature in kernel or in external package is 
> > orthogonal to external data structure or reference from class(info) and 
> > method(info)
> > 
> > There's one more complication to keep in mind, independent of above. 
> > overwrites have to be handled too. A method has to keep the overwritten
> > method. Again, one can keep it in MethodInfo...
> 
> Okay, true. 
> 
> > Yes. Paolo? 
> 
> I care about memory increase of a plain kernel/image as well. 

OK, let's do some experiments first to get some data. 

> How
> much time do you have for GNU Smalltalk?
> 

Not much. Half a day per week, at best.