On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 10:47 +0100, Markus Fritsche wrote: > > On 06.02.2015 09:33, stepharo wrote: > > > In the coming months we will work on putting in place our > > bootstrapping kernel. > > There are no Smalltalk able to do that right now. > > GNU Smalltalk does just that, if it doesn't find an image, it will be > bootstrapped by using the shipped .st fileouts.
Smalltalk/X does that too. It does not even need .st fileouts at bootstrapping time to come up without an image. Jan > > A bit of cheating is involved, a compiler & initialization is > implemented on the VM side. > > So I would say "there are no Smalltalk that are able to do that right > now the way we want to do it" :-P > > (Pissing at the door contest, to refer to another unquoted > metaphor :-D)
