[squeak-dev] The broken user interrupt, or the saga of 100000 factorial.

Christopher Oliver current.input.port at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 02:41:17 UTC 2011


On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:31:05 -0500
"David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> If the above is true, then it also begs the question of why the finalization
> process should be so active that it just happens to be the process that
> gets interrupted so often. That suggests that the finalization process
> may be much busier than it needs to be.

Factorial generates a lot of garbage bignums.  Might that bear on this?

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Christopher Oliver <current.input.port at gmail.com>



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