Spoon progress 14 February 2006: yet another way to shrink, perhaps the best

[Craig Latta]

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

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Craig Latta
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