RE: RFC: Bytecode file format

[Hong Zhang]

> There's a one-off conversion penalty at bytecode load time, and I don't 
> consider that excessive. I want the bytecode to potentially be in platform

> native format (4/8 byte ints, big or little endian) with a simple and 
> well-defined set of conversion semantics. That way the bytecode loader can

> manage it quickly, and the external conversion tool (To change between 
> types) can deal with it simply as well.

If you want native format, you have implement runtime specific image file
format, such as Smalltalk image.

It will be hard to use one format for both native and portable.

Hong