Spoon February 2006

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Spoon progress 14 February 2006: yet another way to shrink, perhaps the best
by Craig Latta 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hi-- I have a variant of the garbage collector working, one which doesn't mark methods which haven't been run recently. This does most of the work of shrinking an object memory, in one fell swoop (and it runs at full speed). Now I just kill unwanted processes from afar, clear all method activation marks, run a few things I know I'll want (mostly support for remote messaging), then make a snapshot. The automatic removal of unrun methods this way causes a chain reaction, with the freeing of unused method literals. What used to take days (shrinking manually with a remote system browser) now takes a couple of seconds. -C -- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist www.netjam.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]

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Spoon progress 8 February 2006: first Naiad commands working, remote process browser
by Craig Latta 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hi-- Two new developments: - Naiad is Spoon's module system. I wrote previously about a scheme for using URLs to issue Naiad commands (load a module, make a snapshot, quit, etc.). The first sample web page with Naiad commands on it is http://netjam.org/spoon/modules/. (Currently it's only interesting as a description of the scheme and as an example of a Naiad command URL; you need the as-yet-unreleased Spoon 1a13 or later to actually run it.) - I've built a working remote process browser. This is handy for manipulating processes in a headless system from afar. I'm using it to debug a module which removes all non-essential objects from a target system. With this module, I'll have the liberty of throwing away small object memories (e.g., if I make some fundamental change that's difficult to retrofit), since it'll be easy to just make new ones. thanks, -C -- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist www.netjam.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]

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Spoon February 2006