Table 4 gives the approximate size of the main components
of Squeak in lines of code, based on version 1.18 of
December, 1996. Our measurement includes all comments, but
excludes all blank lines. We present these statistics not as
rigorous measurement, but more as an order-of-magnitude
gauge. For instance, the entire virtual machine is
approximately 100 pages. Of that, 6547 lines are in Smalltalk
(translator not included) versus 1681 lines of OS interface
in C that may need to be altered for porting.
The size of the 1.18 Squeak release image, with all
development support, including browsers, inspectors,
performance analyzers, color graphics, and music support is
968K bytes on the Macintosh. The code for the virtual
machine, simulator, and Smalltalk-to-C translator, which are
only needed by those engaged in virtual machine development,
adds 290K to this figure. The interpreter, when running,
requires 300K on a Power PC Macintosh, and the entire
Smalltalk environment runs satisfactorily with as little as
200K of free space available. In monochrome, the system runs
comfortably in 1.8 MB. We distribute a 650K image with the
complete development environment that runs in less than 1MB
on the Cassiopeia hand held computer.
