On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Craig Latta <craig@netjam.org> wrote:

Hi Bert (and Eliot)--

> [John Maloney] did [MicroSqueak] a couple of years ago and showed it
> to us last summer. As Eliot wrote, it builds an image in memory from a
> hierarchy of classes.

How did he know which classes were necessary for the new image?

There is a hierarchy rooted at MObject, all of which becomes the new classes in the new image. The generator renames the classes so that in the generated image MObject is called Object and so on for all subclasses.

HTH

thanks,

-C

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