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Looks like we'll be able to start boasting about that...

It is a first step... There is still a lot of duplicated and dead code, for example. But aside from that:

We should really have a look into sharing e.g. identical large strings (using a copy-on-write proxy) and compression...

e.g. Forms are compressed (see #hibernate) on shutdown. Why no do more like that, but more late bound?

Most of the 22MB are not part of the working set... we could gain a lot of space by compressing once as the last state of the build.

Another thing I would like to have is to compress the distribution images and have the VM uncompress them on startup. LZ4 decompresses with

2GB/second *per core*... and the resulting image would be 12MB. This way we could have .pharo images and just use those, no need to have

a zip on the build server.��

�� Marcus