Space usage (where is it all going?)

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Sat Apr 28 21:32:56 UTC 2001


On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:33:46 -0400 (EDT) Scott A Crosby <crosby at qwes.math.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Roughly 3mb in the image results from 8 large bitmaps, and another 1.3mb
>results from 45 large strings. I'm unfamilar enough with smalltalk to be
>unsure how to derive exactly what bitmaps and what strings they are, but
>if we can remove or compress them, we can save amost 30% of image size. 53
>object to save 30%.

Scott,

	String allInstances select: [ :each | each size > 8000]

will show you the large strings. The Bitmap usage is probably almost all the Bitmap in Display (Squeak draws offscreen to Display and then transfers that quickly to the crt or whatever).

Cheers,
Bob





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