[Vm-dev] Compactor not working > News?

[Esteban Lorenzano]

in my case is working as expected (it compacts :P)

Esteban

> On 2 Mar 2017, at 09:36, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Phil,
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>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 7:43 AM, "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at highoctane.be> wrote:
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>> I have been trying the latest Pharo VM since there was compaction support brought in.
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> There has always been compaction support.  The original version wasn't very good, both slow and unable to fully compact (unless the heap is very regular).
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>> But it doesn't seem to work as advertised.
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> That's extremely vague.  Can you be more specific?
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>> Any status update on this?
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> I have made the new compactor the default after getting a test suite to pass at  Cadence.  I've been using the new compactor without issue since getting the suite to pass.  Levente has reported some crashes in saving Monticello packages.  I have not seen anything like this.
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>> Phil