I've been reading up on Dart snapshots, and they're frequently compared to Smalltalk images. But to me, they sound alot like Java bytecode.
For example:
"A Dart snapshot is just a binary serialization of the token stream, generated from parsing the code. A snapshot is not a "snapshot of a running program", it's generated before the tokens are turned into machine code. So, no program state is captured in a snapshot."
Plus they're cross-platform:
"The snapshot format itself is cross-platform meaning that it works between 32-bit, 64-bit machines and so forth. The format has been made so that it's quick to read into memory with a emphasis on minimizing extra work like pointer fixups."
Am I getting it wrong somewhere?
Sources:
What is the snapshot concept in dart?
http://www.infoq.com/articles/google-dart