John M McIntosh wrote:
> ...

> You'll note if you allocate a new object then drop it into the Array  
> then it will cause the million array object to become a root object  
> since
> it points to an element in newspace. This causes us to iterate over the  
> million elements again and CPU time will go way up.
> 
> Solving this issue is an exercise for the reader.

What about (arr pointing to objects in newspace)
  Smalltalk garbageCollect.
  arr := arr collect: [:e | e]
?

>...
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