2009/11/7 Adrian Lienhard <adi@netstyle.ch>

Yes, in "normal" use of Pharo, holding the sources in memory would
only consume a fraction of the available RAM. Some applications,
however, have several hundred images running at the same time on a
server. In this case the picture looks very different again.

There are scenarios where one would want to build a Smalltalk inside another, both sharing the same VM (i.e. testing intra-image communication or simulating a big-bang process), but of course, several hundred images running each one with its own VM is a more common case, and none of these is a "normal" use of Smalltalk currently.

Cheers,

Hern��n