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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: SE: size of v.exe
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Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:00:57 GMT
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Chris Stolpe (cstolpe@acm.org) wrote:
: What should be the size of v.exe in smalltalk express? The readme says
: it should be small and I saw on another site that it should be > 100K.
: Mine is 1.36M but. I noticed that my image had grown to more than 4M so
: I deleted all instances of my classes and the image dropped down to
: 1.36M. How do I know if there is something else that should be deleted?

The V.EXE that comes with Smalltalk Express is 9168 bytes without
WindowBuilder, and 1,046,882 bytes with WindowBuilder.  So if you're
running WindowBuilder, your image isn't much bigger than the base image.
In any case, you should try to manage your development process so that you
don't have to worry about rogue objects.

When you develop in Smalltalk Express, you should use a change manager of
some kind.  Write code in such a way that you can always start over with a
fresh image and then file in your changes to rebuild your application
whenever you need a fresh start.  Here are a couple of URLs pointing to
change management and packaging tools to check out!

http://www.ksccary.com

http://www.partssolution.com

Carl
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