<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>Il giorno Feb 20, 2007, alle ore 6:31 PM, Avi Bryant ha scritto:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Very nice. Let me see if I understood you right.. by outpointers you mean</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that the image segments must be "closed", I mean objects of one segment</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">should not have references to objets outside that segment right?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sort of.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Your image segment has a root - for me, this is usually</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">something like a global MyDatabase object, from which all of your data</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is accessible.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The trick is that before you put out a segment, you</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">have to get rid of all references to any of your data that does not</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">stem from that root.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This includes your Seaside sessions (WARegistry</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">clearAllHandlers), any open debuggers/inspectors/workspaces that might</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hold onto them, maybe DynamicVariables, etc.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You'll know when you've</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">got an outpointer because it will take an order of magnitude longer to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">write out the image segment.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Hi Avi,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there a size limit for ImageSegments, or a size beyond which they are not practical anymore?</DIV><DIV>This is not related to Seaside actually, but I was wondering if saving an ImageSegment of say 100MB would work.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Romain</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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