Symbol allInstances
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jul 31 07:22:00 UTC 2007
Symbol allSymbols is the correct idiom to use. Symbol allSubInstances is
overkill and very slow.
Cheers,
- Andreas
nicolas cellier wrote:
> Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Browsing through a 3.9 image I found three senders of Symbol
>> allInstances which store the result in a temp during image segment
>> export:
>> ImageSegment >> #copySmartRootsExport:
>> CodeLoader >> #exportCodeSegment:classes:keepSource:
>> SystemDictionary >> #writeImageSegmentsFrom:withKernel:
>> Is this a problem?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
>>
>
> Yes, Symbol is now an abstract class.
> Symbol allInstances size = 0.
> There are only ByteSymbol or WideSymbol in the image.
> If goal is to create strong pointers as mentionned in comment, then Symbol
> allSubInstances would be better.
>
> Nicolas
>
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