> On 30 Nov 2015, at 11:55, Ferlicot D. Cyril <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 30/11/2015 11:40, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit : >> I am wondering when an instance of a class is garbage collected and >> deleted from the system. >> >> is there a way to manually deleted it ? > > If there is no Object that reference your object you can force a Garbage > collect with "Smalltalk garbageCollect". If your object is still here > you can try to see what point to it with "(X allInstances collectAsSet: > #pointersTo) inspect". > > When the reference is spotted you can try to remove it then garbage > collect again.
forcing a garbage collection is not a recommended procedure. Of course you can do it while testing/developing/etc., but you must not use it as a part of your code :) Esteban > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > > http://www.synectique.eu > > 165 Avenue Bretagne > Lille 59000 France >
