What Ben says that he thinks it might already be solved. Maybe not on all platforms.
> On 16 Feb 2017, at 15:59, denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, this has to be solved on the VM level and will be read when it is ready. > The release should bot be hold up due to this, therefore I removed the > milestone. > >> On 16 Feb 2017, at 15:50, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> @Marcus, I was reviewing this issue before I noticed you flipped the >> milestone from Pharo 6.0 to Later. >> >> But is it solved already? >> In a fresh image 47.7MB in size >> I did the following a bunch of times to grow the image file to 400MB >> o ifNil: [o := OrderedCollection new]. >> 100 timesRepeat: [ o add: (Array new: 100000) ]. >> Smalltalk saveSession >> >> then I did this >> o := nil. >> Smalltalk saveSession. >> >> and the image file returned to 47.7MB. >> >> Version info... >> Linux Debian 8 Jessie 32-bit >> Latest update: #60391 >> CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1855 uuid: >> d8e4a3c2-a3bf-4adc-b224-8012903a1ef4 May 4 2016 >> StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1855 uuid: >> d8e4a3c2-a3bf-4adc-b224-8012903a1ef4 May 4 2016 >> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git Commit: >> b8ec25a570d7539653e1d793e97609adb509aaed Date: 2016-05-04 11:14:22 >> +0200 By: Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> Jenkins build #589 >> >> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17240/Spur-When-saving-an-image-it-never-shrinks >> >> cheers -ben >> > >
