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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm new to squeak as well as this list, so hello to
everyone. As a child, I had a lot of fun programming systems,
using basic, assembly language, and C. As an adult, I've made my living
doing a variety of technical jobs, including programming c++, perl, and for the
last couple of years, a load of java. I found myself drawn to computers as
a child because I found them fun and a lot more stimulating than most of
the other things around me. At work, I've managed to keep learning
and diversifying my understanding. I often gain satifaction from my work,
and I appreciate the beauty and intentions of all the languages I've programmed,
but I haven't had a lot of real fun with them. I've finally found squeak,
and so far I've not been disappointed - it's been stimulating, exiting
and fun. I only wish I'd had it as a child.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was just wondering how stable I should expect
squeak to be in general. I'm running 3.1, feb 28th, and I've had it crash
on me a couple of times. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Firstly was when I sent storeString to a set which
contained a few of my own objects which each referenced a TextMorph. I'm
assuming that I indirectly asked the system to 'serialize' a very large
number of objects - I've had this kind of thing happen in java rmi where a
careless reference can lead to a whole system being 'sucked' from one vm to
another.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>More recently, I was experimenting with morphic
scripting and the system stopped responding after some gesture I made with the
scripting tiles - dropping one tile onto another or some such
action.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In both cases, the squeak system wasn't totally
dead - it was still responding as far as windows was concerned. With the
first crash, there wasn't much cpu activity but the vm kept growing for a long
time. The second time, squeak went to 99% cpu.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically, all I'm really asking is how stable
should I expect squeak to be? I realise that's a kind of 'how long is a
piece of string' kind of question, and I'm quickly learning to save images
whenever I've done any meaningful work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Robin Barooah</FONT></DIV>
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