[self-interest] Does Self have become:

[Michael Latta]

If you are scanning memory, I hope you are avoiding byte arrays!  I 
also assume you catch references on the stack and in registers.

Michael


On Jun 22, 2004, at 7:25 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 June 2004 02:43, Brian Rice wrote:
>> However, that solution masks the fact that the _AddSlots: call may
>> require the automatic memory allocator to re-allocate the object and
>> perform pointer forwarding (through tables, or whatever).
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> This, and the other stuff you wrote, are very good points.
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> Without checking the VM sources, my guess is that _AddSlots: scans
> through the whole memory updating all pointers to the changed object.
> This was a key decision in the object memory design - that the heap(s)
> should be scanned word by word instead of object by object and field by
> field within the object.
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> This works very well with everything in RAM, but like #allInstances and
> friends from Smalltalk it doesn't like virtual memory.
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> -- Jecel
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