[UI] [Slightly OT] Stability of Squeak

Travis Kay tlk at nb.sympatico.ca
Thu Nov 1 04:21:04 UTC 2007


Gary,

I've noticed a few debuggers that just wont die, but I'm still trying to 
track down the problem. Some of the semaphore / delay fixes have worked 
ok for me, others have seemed to hosed my image - admittedly I didn't 
review code or comments before just filing in the change sets.

Travis

Gary Chambers wrote:
> I've not noticed a particular increase in image size, myself. The semaphore
> fixes posted in the dev-list have worked wonders for the stability of our
> client's software... AFAIK they'll be put into 3.10 but must be installed
> manualy for 3.9.
>
> There was a post somewhre in the ui list about unrecoverable garbage. After
> my last respone there has been no feeback, however.
>
> Regards, Gary,
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Bill Schwab
>> Sent: 01 November 2007 2:31 AM
>> To: ui at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: [UI] [Slightly OT] Stability of Squeak
>>
>>
>> Gang,
>>
>> Has there been a resolution of the (sorry if I am suffering from memory
>> corruption here) non-collectable garbage under Gary's enhancements?
>> Another thing that disturbed me was the Croquet group(???) threatening
>> to drop Squeak servers in favor of Java or similar.  There were some
>> semaphore/delay/shared queue kinds of fixes.  Did they make it into
>> Squeak?
>>
>> Please don't do my homework for me.  I am hoping someone here happens to
>> remember the details.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>> University of Florida
>> Department of Anesthesiology
>> PO Box 100254
>> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>>
>> Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
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