Herbert, Thanks for the answer. In fact, the object I was working on is a map which takes 400Mb, so when I finish a test, I would prefer the object to be "removed". I will try to force garbage collection as you proposed.
Cheers Stéphane Herbert König a écrit : > Hello Stéphane, > > s> I would like to know when an object created in aworkspace is deleted > (garbaged). > > the simplified answer is, when the object is not referenced any more and > the system decides to do a garbage collection. > > If you need something collected: > Smalltalk garbageCollect > will do just that. > > s> I then ask for MyWorldallInstances in another window and the value is 1. > Actually the value is an array with one element. > > If you still find instances after an explicit GC you can inspect that > array by MyWorld allInstances inspect. > > In the inspector you can right click (Win) on that element and select > "objects pointing to this value" and find out who references your > object. > > s> I don’t understand this behaviour. The objectshoudn’t be > s> referenced or only by weak references, no ? > > GC is time consuming so it's split up between incremental and full > garbage collects. Both are scheduled when necessary (this is a big can > of worms but documented on the swiki). So you can still find an > object which is not referenced as long as no collection has occurred. > > > Cheers > > > Herbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list [email protected] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
