2008/2/29 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org>:
>
>  >>  > out of curiosity (forgot the reason) in a Workspace I did
>  >>  > a:= Array new: 100000000 withAll: 1.0
>  >>
>  >>  Unless I'm mistaken, this is two objects, an Array and a Float.
>  >>
>  > Add block contexts created for each iteration for filling array with value.
>
>  For #to:do: ?  And anyway I'd hope they are short-lived and don't make
>  it into oldspace.
>
Yes, but they trigger incremental GC quite often.

>  What Klaus wanted was, more likely, something like
>
>    (1 to: n) collect: [ :each | each asFloat ]
>
>  (Don't try it at home with n = 100,000,000)
>
>  Paolo
>
>



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