Hi guys What yoshiki is doing is quite nice and cool. We started this summer to do the same (without the C compiler). Now we will see how we can join effort or at least interact or learn from what he did. Nicolas, Gabriel and Benjamin we should continue :) so that your work is not lost. Now there are some lessons to learn: when you believe into something, you should do it and not talk. - I should have worked on that after seen the talk of dave thomas at ESUG at Douai instead of trying to improve squeak. Now as a researcher papers papers projects money projects...... are slowly killing us. - I really really happy that we decided to do pharo because at least we are doing something. Thanks you all for your good energy. Stef ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki@vpri.org> Date: Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM Subject: [squeak-dev] A Bootstrap Compiler To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org> Hi, We've been playing with John's MicroSqueak and it occured to me that having a bytecode compiler that is implemented outside of Squeak opens some possibilities, such as generate a growable image file from all text files, or make deep changes to the system without shooting yourself. I wrote a longer explanation so if you are interested, please go to: https://github.com/yoshikiohshima/SqueakBootstrapper and check it out. Thank you! -- Yoshiki