<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Ben Coman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:btc@openinworld.com" target="_blank">btc@openinworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:28 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:commits@squeakvm.org" target="_blank">commits@squeakvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div style="overflow:hidden">Make the allOldMarkedWeakObjectsOnWeaklingStack assert an eassert: (it /is/<br>
extremely expensive) and correct some typos in eassert:.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>Just curiousity...<br>What is an easert: ? Is that just short for "expensive assert"?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">What is the effect in practice? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's an assert that only gets run if the "run expensive asserts" is set. The assert VM is slow, and some asserts slow it down a lot. These we make easserts for less painful debugging, turning them on only when one is sure they are useful.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"> cheers -ben</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">best,<div>Eliot</div></div>
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