Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages (was Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: GetText-edc.26.mcz)

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Dec 28 19:27:26 UTC 2012


On 28-12-2012, at 10:32 AM, "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just redid
>    Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages
> in a 4.3 All-in-one release. It works fine. The resulting image is 10.7MB.

That's still a lot of stuff. I have trouble imagining that it is all classes & compiled methods; so what is taking up the rest of the space in this image? I haven't done any work on the minimising in ages (I think there were still Mammoths roaming southern England back then) but I vaguely recall method versions occupying outrageous amounts of image at some point.


tim
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