Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages (was Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: GetText-edc.26.mcz)

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 20:44:17 UTC 2012


On 28 December 2012 19:27, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 28-12-2012, at 10:32 AM, "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I just redid
>>    Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages
>> in a 4.3 All-in-one release. It works fine. The resulting image is 10.7MB.
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> That's still a lot of stuff. I have trouble imagining that it is all classes & compiled methods; so what is taking up the rest of the space in this image? I haven't done any work on the minimising in ages (I think there were still Mammoths roaming southern England back then) but I vaguely recall method versions occupying outrageous amounts of image at some point.

I don't know about mammoth-sized methods, but I can confirm that
southern (or at least south-eastern) England lacks the animal kind of
mammoth. And dinosaurs. Either would make my children happy!

frank

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