> On 2021-01-22, at 5:26 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 02:03:10PM -0600, jaromir wrote:
>> I ran the following in Squeak 5.3:
>> 
>> TranscriptStream forceUpdate: false.
>> [ 10000 timesRepeat: [ Transcript show: 'x' ] ] forkAt: 39
>> 
>> When the Transcript window fills up, 'Message not understood' and 'Assertion
>> failure' appear. I'm wondering is this a bug? Thanks. Jaromir
>> 
>> <http://forum.world.st/file/t372955/Screenshot_2021-01-22_205244.png> 
>> 
> 
> It certainly does appear to be a bug.

We had some discussion about it not so long ago; you can't use the Transcript to log bugs from Seaside very well, for example. Background processes, mutexs, that sort of thing. IIRC Levente offered an explanation?


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