Damien,

I suggest to activate the #initializeMemorySettings which Andreas posted  
in the squeak-dev and -web .images. TIA.

And thank you Andreas!

/Klaus

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:11:44 +0100, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Jon Hylands wrote:
>> I can't find any Squeak images that implement #gcBiasToGrow:... Is that
>> something you wrote, or part of some package I don't have?
>
> It's been part of the VM for a long time but not exposed to the image in  
> any shape or form. We added it to Croquet:
>
> SystemDictionary>>gcBiasToGrow: aBool
> 	"Tell the VM to grow after tenures instead of running in a tight loop  
> where it does IGCs over and over. For some weird reason the primitive  
> takes an integer not a bool but oh well..."
> 	self primitiveGCBiasToGrow: (aBool ifTrue:[1] ifFalse:[0])
>
> SystemDictionary>>primitiveGCBiasToGrow: arg
> 	"Tell the VM to grow after tenures instead of running in a tight loop  
> where it does IGCs over and over. For some weird reason the primitive  
> takes an integer not a bool but oh well..."
> 	<primitive: 'primitiveSetGCBiasToGrow'>
> 	^self primitiveFailed
>
> Ditto for any others that may be missing.
>
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
>
>