On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Herbert König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > > Child>>>parent > MD> ^ Parent allInstances detect: [ :each | each children includes: self ] > > allInstances scans *every* object in the image which is slow.
Ouch, I can see that it would be :-) > The garbage collector needs a path to a root object (whatever that is) > so a purely circular reference does not prevent garbage collection of > parent and child. Thanks, that's interesting - does that mean that the parent-child linkage in Rob's example isn't the root cause of his problem? _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
