[Vm-dev] Compactor not working > News?

[phil at highoctane.be]

Ok, I'll pick the latest windows VM and see what it gives.

Phil

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> in my case is working as expected (it compacts :P)
>
> Esteban
>
> > On 2 Mar 2017, at 09:36, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> >> On Feb 22, 2017, at 7:43 AM, "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at highoctane.be>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have been trying the latest Pharo VM since there was compaction
> support brought in.
> >
> > There has always been compaction support.  The original version wasn't
> very good, both slow and unable to fully compact (unless the heap is very
> regular).
> >
> >> But it doesn't seem to work as advertised.
> >
> > That's extremely vague.  Can you be more specific?
> >
> >> Any status update on this?
> >
> > I have made the new compactor the default after getting a test suite to
> pass at  Cadence.  I've been using the new compactor without issue since
> getting the suite to pass.  Levente has reported some crashes in saving
> Monticello packages.  I have not seen anything like this.
> >
> >>
> >> Phil
>
>
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