On 27-Dec-05, at PM 04:49, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Further to my first answer, I think you could also visit WeakArray and 
> inspect the class var FinalizationDependents.
> Because of changes in when weak objects are collected, ie fixing a bug 
> about when collection was actually done, we now are more likely to 
> perform a finalization pass on each
> incremental GC pass. If for example you find you have a WeakArray or 
> subclass with say 60,000 entries in the valueDictionary you will find 
> the logic actually scans each entry looking to do the finalization 
> task. Iterating over 60K members every GC event does take some time, 
> ie lots...

I tried to reproduce the slowness from a backup. It feels slow, but not 
_as_ slow as I first encountered it. The class var 
FinalizationDependents of WeakArray only has 100-140 elements so I 
supposed its not that. Thanks for spending time to look at this, sorry 
I couldn't nail down the cause.

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