[squeak-dev] Constantly growing Image file

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Dec 26 23:22:33 UTC 2022


On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 10:04 AM Jakob Reschke <jakres+squeak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Since there is a PointerExplorerWrapper in this trace I believe that a
> pointer explorer is already open on one of the objects, or that this tool
> does not exclude itself from its own pointer search...
>
> If the latter is the case, it would be a Heisentool, where the attempt of
> using it changes that which it is supposed to observe. :-P
>

Which is why I don't use the pointer explorer when I'm trying to clean all
instance of a class out.  Instead:

    TheClass allInstances anyOne chasePointers

:-P

:)
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