On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>> Well... it is needed for the swapping out of classes. If we remove
>>>> #isInMemory, we should also remove the whole image segment stub mechanism
>>>> because it becomes useless without the isInMemory protection.
>
> what I was thinking to remove is the use of isInMemory from
> SystemDictionary>>allClasses and friends.
> Now I do not get 100% what you are saying.
> Do you say that all the queries should be protected against bringing back
> classes on disc?
The reason why the #isInmemory checks are there at all is the following:
-> they used imageSegements (and before, the ObjectOut stuff) to swap
out objecs to disk
-> Now if you access the class, it is loaded again.
-> doing anything that looks at "all classes" would load the classes.
(all of them)
-> this includes things like "Object subclasses". or "Smalltalk
classNames".
-> e.g. Openign a browser would load all classes.
-> so we put #isInMemory everywhere
-> this of course means that #subclasses would just return those that
by chance are
in memory... I don't understand how that can work. Honestly :-)
I think we shoud remove all that stuff and do it "for real". c.f. Loom.
Marcus
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INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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