Maybe we could discard Workspace content that are more than 10 days old Just an idea...
Alexandre On 21 Jan 2009, at 01:44, Chris Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Lukas Renggli <reng...@gmail.com> > wrote: > It happened to me more than once, that I accidently had some huge > objects hanging in a workspace leading to a memory leak. So > remembering the variables can be a dangerous thing. > > Mainly I was checking to see if there would be issues like this. I > often do researchy things in workspaces which grab only large > amounts of memory (100's of MB), and forget to nil them out > afterwards. Then, weeks (or months) later I need to shrink the > image, and eventually find my way back to the workspace where a > simple nil clears them out. I was worried that if they were held > onto in history, this would be a problem. > > Keeping the strings around would be useful for me - my current image > has about 20 workspaces open (and in 3.10 dev, this results in lots > of minimized window title bars). Being able to store them off in > history would be nice. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
