7 Jan
2014
7 Jan
'14
10:49 a.m.
On 7 January 2014 02:33, Craig Latta craig@netjam.org wrote:
Hi Colin--
I think the best way to shrink is for the garbage collector to doit. There's an alternate version of the GC in Spoon[1], invoked with Interpreter>>primitiveSnapshotWithoutStaleMethods. It sets a mark bit on all the methods associated with contexts in extant processes, along with any other methods which have run (for example, by running unit tests). Then it treats all other methods as garbage in the pre-snapshot GC.
Craig, how difficult would it be to get the necessary VM changes for this feature into the main VMs?
frank