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  16 <p class="p1"><b>Process</b></p>
  17 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  18 <p class="p3"><b>superclass: Object</b></p>
  19 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  20 <p class="p3">A Process is the runtime environment for the virtual machine and interpreter.</p>
  21 <p class="p3">It has a subclass named Main which is where you should override the methods</p>
  22 <p class="p3">of Process. There are two methods of interest. One is named 'startup' and is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
  23 <p class="p3">called after the class library has been compiled. The other is named 'run' and</p>
  24 <p class="p3">is called when the user chooses the Run menu command.</p>
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  26 <p class="p3"><b>startup</b></p>
  27 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  28 <p class="p3">called after the class library has been compiled. Override this in class Main to do whatever you want.</p>
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  30 <p class="p3"><b>run</b></p>
  31 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  32 <p class="p3">called when the user chooses the Run menu command. Override this in class Main to do whatever you want.</p>
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  34 <p class="p3"><b>*tailCallOptimize</b></p>
  35 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  36 <p class="p3">Returns a Boolean indicating whether tail call optimization is on. The default is on.</p>
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  38 <p class="p3"><b>*tailCallOptimize_(aBoolean)</b></p>
  39 <p class="p2"><br></p>
  40 <p class="p3">Turns tail call optimization on or off. Setting this to false can help with debugging by including intermediate levels in an error backtrace.</p>
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