[squeak-dev] Re: immutibility

James Foster Smalltalk at JGFoster.net
Thu Mar 18 15:17:54 UTC 2010


On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> the above is an example when object, recorded as an immutable one,
> then mutated outside a DB transaction. So db can't capture the attempt
> to modify it. What GemStone doing to handle this?

Actually, GemStone traps object modification at the byte-code level in the VM so does not rely on immutability to be informed of a modification.

James


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