>Hi, I would like to know if anyone knows how can I avoid the problems I'm
>having when I work with millions of objects. I'm running Squeak with 256
>megas of RAM and after evaluating 'OrderedCollection new: 2000000'
>everything gets slower. Thank you.
>
>Diego

Try doing a Smalltalk garbageCollect and see what happens.

It's a GC implementation issue. Since I'm about to take a gaggle of 
teenagers to  the movie house I'll let someone else explain the 
technical details of why Squeak becomes slow after allocating 100,000 
element collections.

Mmm, maybe this week I'll think again on a solution...
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