Well... I do no think so. There is a fair amount of work regarding memory profiling. Dereferencing is probably only a small piece off. Anyway, we will have time to refine the project description
Alexandre > Le 14-02-2014 à 18:17, Levente Uzonyi <le...@elte.hu> a écrit : > >> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Alexandre Bergel wrote: >> >> Hi Paolo, >> >> I can mentor the project below: >>> Project idea >>> >>> Name: Instance Derreferencer for Pharo >>> Skill level: Intermediate >>> Possible Mentors: >>> Name of the Student: Alejandro Infante >>> >>> Description: >>> A problem with image based environment is, when you detect a memory leak is >>> removing those objects from the system. This tool would provide a handy UI >>> to inspect the current instances of the classes that we think they have a >>> memory leak and, in case there are objects that are not being garbage >>> collected, offer to the user a Derreference button. This is going to >>> iterate over all the objects that have a reference to my object and remove >>> that reference, finally enabling the Garbage Collector to get rid of the >>> leak. > > It shouldn't take more than an hour to implement such tool. > > > Levente > >> >> Cheers, >> Alexandre >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2014-02-14 5:08 GMT-08:00 Nicolas Petton <petton.nico...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Paolo Bonzini writes: >>> >>>> Il 11/02/2014 10:42, Damien Cassou ha scritto: >>>>> Hi fellow Pharo hackers, >>>>> >>>>> ESUG, the European Smalltalk User Group, is applying for this >>>>> year's Google Summer of Code. As you probably know, the Summer >>>>> of Code provides the opportunity to fund students to work during >>>>> the summer on Pharo. Please reply to this >>>>> email (be sure to use "Reply to all") if you have ideas you >>>>> would like to propose. >>>>> >>>>> Please include a summary of the project and links to web pages >>>>> that can help prospective students to write their application. >>>>> Please also include the following information: >>>>> >>>>> - if applicable, other dialects that you would be willing to >>>>> mentor this project for >>>>> >>>>> - the skill level >>>>> >>>>> - name of the mentor(s), email addresses, and possibly any IRC >>>>> network/channel/nickname where they can be found. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for contributing to ESUG's Summer of Code application! >>>> >>>> Just a note that I haven't yet processed this thread, but our ideas page >>>> is already looking pretty well (and Pharo section is big) so I'll >>>> probably do it in the weekend or next Monday. >>> >>> I can do it if you want. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nico >> >> -- >> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu >> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >
