Feb. 6, 2015
10:20 a.m.
On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 10:47 +0100, Markus Fritsche wrote:
On 06.02.2015 09:33, stepharo wrote:
In the coming months we will work on putting in place our bootstrapping kernel. There are no Smalltalk able to do that right now.
GNU Smalltalk does just that, if it doesn't find an image, it will be bootstrapped by using the shipped .st fileouts.
Smalltalk/X does that too. It does not even need .st fileouts at bootstrapping time to come up without an image. Jan
A bit of cheating is involved, a compiler & initialization is implemented on the VM side.
So I would say "there are no Smalltalk that are able to do that right now the way we want to do it" :-P
(Pissing at the door contest, to refer to another unquoted metaphor :-D)