I understand that to mean effectively that you are "opening" the image across the net - so eventually you need to whole image transmitted, but you don't have to wait for the whole thing before you start running it.

cheers -ben

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

Indeed that can be a barrier ��but why you would want to transmit an entire image instead of portion of it using something like fuel files or other binary formats ? It would dramatically reduce the size of data you transmit.��

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:10 PM Craig Latta <craig@blackpagedigital.com> wrote:

> ...10mbs which is the size pharo image can be reduced to is nothing
> for todays TBs hard drives and GBs flash drives and online storage.
> Unless you do an embedded app and 10 mbs are huge for your limited
> storage.

�� �� ��Or you want to minimize initial startup time, including the time it
takes to transmit the entire system over the net.


-C

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