marcus I read your fix and I do not understand why the previous way was a problem. What was your hypothesis?
Stef > On 11 Nov 2019, at 14:46, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> During our work we encountered two issues we think should be considered >>>> critical. >>>> >>>> The first is that the garbage collector is unreliable on larger images: >>>> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/391 >>>> <https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/391> >>>> We stumble on this when we manipulate larger pieces of data quite >>>> consistently in plain Pharo (7 or 8). We lack the knowledge of how to >>>> approach it, but we would happily pair and try to reproduce it with >>>> someone. >>>> >>>> The second one is that the sources contain wrong pointers, and this makes >>>> it hard to work with TFFI: >>>> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/4967 >>>> This is already marked as important. We spent quite some time >>>> investigating this, especially in the context of TFFI, and we would be >>>> happy to pair to work through it. >>>> > > I think my PR fixes it… the PR is green and the downloaded artefact seems to > not show any problematic methods anymore: > > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/5120 > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/5120> > > > > Marcus
