[squeak-dev] Image stops responding Form>>copyWithColorsReducedTo:

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 19:44:00 UTC 2022


Hi,
I'm not sure what the best solution is here.
I put 2 simple changes in the inbox that avoid the problem

http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Morphic-kfr.2014.mcz
http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Graphics-kfr.526.mcz

Best,
Karl

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:11 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> Hi Karl --
>
> > It seems to be this that causes the problem when depth is 32 bits.
>
> Yes, 32-bit depth forms are not meant to have a color map. See class
> comment in ColorForm.
>
> > This doIt will cause same problem from a workspace:
> > (1 to: (1 bitShift:32)) collect:[:i | i = 100]
>
> Because it will try to allocate about 35 GiB of memory. See my previous
> answer.
>
> > We should not use this for bit depth > 16 as it will cause problems
>
> Maybe we should move the algorithm #copyWithColorsReducedTo: from Form
> (32-bit depth) down to ColorForm (up to 16-bit depth).
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 29.06.2022 20:19:06 schrieb karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> It seems to be this that causes the problem when depth is 32 bits.
>
> Form >> #copyWithColorsReducedTo:
> ...
> colorMap := (1 to: (1 bitShift: depth)) collect:
> ....
>
> This doIt will cause same problem from a workspace:
> (1 to: (1 bitShift:32)) collect:[:i | i = 100]
>
> We should not use this for bit depth > 16 as it will cause problems
>
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Karl --
>>
>> In a 64-bit image, that algorithm tries to allocate about 35 GiB of
>> memory. CMD+Dot will not work because we are sitting in a primitive during
>> that allocation.
>>
>> I think that Form >> #copyWithColorsReducedTo: was originally (2001)
>> used to reduce colors in 16-bit forms or maybe 8-bit forms, given a 32-bit
>> image.
>>
>> (1 << 32) * 8. "34 359 738 368 bytes"
>> (1 << 32) * 4. "17 179 869 184 bytes"
>> (1 << 16) * 4. "262 144 bytes"
>> (1 << 8 )* 4. "1024 bytes"
>>
>> We cannot #collect: this:
>>
>> (1 to: 1 << 32) collect: [:ea | ...].
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> In #copyWithColorsReducedTo: it looks like that we expect a color map.
>> In 32-bit forms, there is no color map. Maybe we should move this algorithm
>> down to ColorForm? See its class comment.
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcel
>>
>> Am 28.06.2022 22:49:43 schrieb karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I do Form>>copyWithColorsReducedTo:256 on any form the image stops
>> responding.
>> No debug log.
>>
>> This is on a updated Trunk image.
>> I'm on a Windows machine.
>>
>> Best,
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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