I will let guille and pavel reply because they know. Sven guille and/or Pavel sent a mail a while ago explaining all the different stages. What I want is that we continue shrinking the core and get a modular system. We are getting there for real. ;) Stef On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Hi,
What is the story around PharoMinimal and related images ?
Is there a writeup somewhere with instructions ?
I see that we get **FANTASTIC** startup speed with it:
$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
$ ./pharo --version 5.0-201708271955 Sun Aug 27 20:09:20 UTC 2017 gcc 4.6.3 [Production Spur VM] CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.2265 uuid: 76b62109-629a-4c39-9641-67b53321df9a Aug 27 2017 StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.2262 uuid: 8b531242-de02-48aa-b418-8d2dde0bec6c Aug 27 2017 VM: 201708271955 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ Date: Sun Aug 27 21:55:26 2017 +0200 $ Plugins: 201708271955 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ Linux testing-gce-ebf45dd8-6a4c-43a5-abd0-e5d8673d05a4 3.13.0-115-generic #162~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 24 16:47:06 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux plugin path: /home/audio359/pharo7/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-201708271955 [default: /home/audio359/pharo7/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-201708271955/]
$ curl get.pharo.org/70-minimal | bash ...
$ ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion [version] 'Pharo7.0' 'Pharo-7.0+alpha.build.172.sha.d13eed2f80fe19f29fd85ede8c4809d6a6986d4f (32 Bit)'
$ time ./pharo Pharo.image eval '5 factorial' 120 real 0m0.083s user 0m0.034s sys 0m0.042s
That is less than 1/10 of a second on a simple server ! Wow.
Loading new code in that image seem hard though.
I see that in http://files.pharo.org/image/70/ there are Pharomonticello & Pharometacello variants.
Any pointers on usage/meaning ?
Thx,
Sven