writeImageFile() without snapshot()?

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Oct 7 19:59:35 UTC 2005


Mmmm, I have thought about doing a full GC without compacting, that  
would save time. Anyone consider if that would work?

On 7-Oct-05, at 12:49 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

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> On Oct 7, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> You can *not* get away without a GC, simply because the GC state  
>> isn't preserved across snapshots. We actually had some obscure  
>> crashes related to this problem in the past (anyone remember the  
>> crashes caused by the root bit being set on the active context  
>> after a snapshot?)

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