> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Arning" <arning at charm.net>
>
> A somewhat new feature of the Windows VM (and maybe only Windows) is the
ability
> to allocate more virtual memory to grow the Squeak heap when needed. I
can't tell you
> exactly how this may alter things from the Mac that I use, but what I see
in addition to
> the unresponsiveness is that there is a file being written in the Squeak
folder
> 'LowSpaceDebug.log'. Given that the entire stack is being written to this
file, things may
> take a while. This file, excerpted below, shows a nearly endless
repetition due to some
> cyclic references. The #storeString family of methods are rather old,
fairly simple and
> do not handle cyclic structures. They are useful for simple things like
arrays of integers
> and strings, but for more complex objects, what you may be looking for are
> ReferenceStream and SmartRefStream - these will deal with cyclic
structures.

Cool - this confirms what I suspected.  I was really only trying out
storeString to see what would happen - I noticed it in the Purple Book when
I was looking for how to do printOn: aStream for one of my own classes, but
it's very useful to know about the 'ReferenceStream's.

> Cheers,
> Bob

[snip]

Thanks.

-Robin.