Hi Hannes, Can open a bug report? I though most recursive problems were fixed in the new inspector. Seems that there are still some related to printing recursive structures.
You can switch to the previous inspector (GTInspector setGTInspectorEnabledStatus: false), however, this bug seem to also kill that inspector. Cheers, Andrei On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:16 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I have realized that inspecting a recursive data structure is very > slow in Pharo 4.0 > > A test case: > > | myDict | > myDict := Dictionary new. > myDict at: #hello put: 'hello'. > myDict at: #recurHello put: myDict. > myDict inspect > > It takes a long time for the inspector to come up. And the image > freezes later on if you continue. > > The problem is with the inspector because if I do > | myDict | > myDict := Dictionary new. > myDict at: #hello put: 'hello'. > myDict at: #recurHello put: myDict. > 3 + 4 inspect > > it comes up instantly. > > > As a comparison I attach the Cuis ** test result. The inspector comes > up instantly and the image does not have any problems. > > > What are the workarounds in Pharo 4.0? > > - Setting a time out somewhere? > - Disabling certain functions? > - Loading a simpler inspector? > > Regards > > Hannes > > > ** current build 2463.image > https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev >
