[Vm-dev] Ephemerons and VM crash

Andres Valloud avalloud at smalltalk.comcastbiz.net
Wed Jun 1 01:23:08 UTC 2016


Yes, see the 2015 IWST paper re: Linked Weak Reference Arrays.  You can 
download the paper using the link here:

http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/International-Workshop-IWST_15/IWST15

See also the short version:

http://blogten.blogspot.com/2015/07/linked-weak-reference-arrays-paper.html

Andres.

On 5/28/16 10:14 , John McIntosh wrote:
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> I'm curious if anyone has studied the time taken to morn & finalize a
> weak object. I ask this because in my past work with VW and VA the most
> interesting GC issues I tackled related to how much time finalization
> took versus how long the engineer thought it might take.
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> Thought on this should relate to normal processing, or situations where
> the engineer is trying to force the finalization via interaction with
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> On Thursday, 26 May 2016, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com
> <mailto:eliot.miranda at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting
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