Scott,

I don't think the GC in SampledInstrument sound loading is a problem, and
I like to know what's going on when loading many megabytes of samples. Most
people aren't using sampled instruments (that I know of), so this code isn't
likely to be run often. Please don't remove it.

With Andreas's cleanups, I think you'll find that full-GC's will rarely occur
except when specifically requested by the user or when actually needed. When
I check my "vm statistics" I seldom see more full GC's than I can account for,
and that's even before Andreas's changes.

	-- John




At 12:49 AM -0500 12/12/01, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> ...
>Other garbage-collecion invokers:
>   SampledInstrument seems to invoke the garbage collector during
>instance-creation for the purposes of computing memory usage during
>loading of samples (which is unused except for purposes of printing onto
>the transcript). Shall I nuke this code?
>
>   MailInboxFile invokes the garbage collector once or twice, both
>directly, and through 'Smalltalk bytesLeft'. This is fairly expensive,
>but easy to clean up.
> ...