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In Alan Kay's recent talks where he describes the implementation of Squeak, one of the last things he demonstrates is the ability to query the system for: Nu
by infinite8s 4y ago
In Alan Kay's recent talks where he describes the implementation of Squeak, one of the last things he demonstrates is the ability to query the system for:
Number of total objects
Size of objects
Number of methods
Avg size of method
Etc
As a sibling comment points out, by definition a live system can do everything a dead system can and more.
- the-smug-one 4y agoAll of those are dynamic properties of one running system, what if I pass in a different set of starting state to it? Will it allocate more objects then? Are any of the methods unused? Well, maybe it is now, but maybe we'll redefine a method at runtime to call the previously unused method. > As a sibling comment points out, by definition a live system can do everything a dead system can and more. "Can do" is not the same as "we can say about", see my response to sibling.