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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Do class libraries have to be in source form? (1 of 4)
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Date: 23 Nov 89 22:22:30 GMT
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I don't want to be misconstrued as advocating this approach, but some
other environments, including the SmallTalk and forth folks, have come
up with some possibilities here.

One way is to ship libraries in a universally agreed intermediate
form, such as some threaded-interpreted code.  As the code runs, it
self-compiles, using an implementation-supplied compiler, and replaces
the interpreted code.  Alternatively, one could target-compile it at
the site.


Jonathan Shapiro
Silicon Graphics, Inc.