[squeak-dev] The Inbox: System-edc.512.mcz

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 22:21:21 UTC 2013


On 21 January 2013 22:13, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 3 timesRepeat: [ Smalltalk garbageCollect].
>
> Doing this 3 times is superstitious. It won't clean up more than doing it
> once.
>
> IMHO an explicit GC is not necessary at all - what purpose does it serve?
>
> - Bert -
>
> About the 3 timesRepeat: [ Smalltalk garbageCollect], I see many times from
> the past, but if Smalltalk garbageCollect is enough, is good to know.
>
> Anyway , none of my cats is black and seeking for a horseshoe with seven
> holes just in case.
>
> On 1/21/13 6:12 PM, "Nicolas Cellier" <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That was my first thought, ask Edgar whether the intention was for
>> image production.
>> And ask about the impact of such change onto every day update.
>> But it seems it has the merit of uncovring some ghost dependents bug.
>
> Well , I come from age when you just hit update image and not download a new
> one each time.
>
> If you don't clean the image, ends with 17 Mb instead 15 Mb.
> I know disk space is cheaper this days...
>
> But do not think this hurt any, maybe if the user user choose wish clean or
> not is satisfactory to those who disagree ?

As long there's a way to update without requiring a user, I'm happy either way.

frank

> Edgar
>
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