Squeak limits

Andreas Raab Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Mon May 20 22:32:01 UTC 2002


Diego,

> Hi, I would like to know if anyone knows how can I avoid the 
> problems I'm having when I work with millions of objects. I'm
> running Squeak with 256 megas of RAM and after evaluating 
> 'OrderedCollection new: 2000000' everything gets slower.

Let's just say that you're not working with millions of objects here.
You are working with _one_ object which happens to be huge. Squeak has a
bit of an efficiency problem in this case; you should force a full
garbage collect when you create these objects to fix this problem.

Cheers,
  - Andreas




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