I like your answer nicolas.
If this is really important for any business or any dev around let us know
we can just tag it and we will port it for 6.2.

Stef


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Nicolas Cellier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> I'd say: is this a showstopper?
> How often do you raise a Fraction to the power of another Fraction with
> large denominator (> 10000)?
> Or is it used indirectly by some kind of Framework?
>
> If yes then open a pharo bug entry and mark for 6.x, else just wait 7.x...
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> 2017-08-14 10:49 GMT+02:00 Tim Mackinnon <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Is there a way for this to get back into 6.1 - so we can shoot for a
>> stable 6.x version that will last us for a year while 7.x is under
>> development?
>>
>> I’m not familiar with how point release are handled in Pharo, and I get
>> the impression that this is going to be a slightly rockier year as there
>> have been some pretty revolutionary changes made to get us here.
>>
>> As its a vm change does this mean we get 6.2 queued up somehow?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> > On 13 Aug 2017, at 20:12, Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Tx eliot.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Eliot Miranda
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hi Andrei,
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Andrei Chis
>> >> <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> I was executing this code  '(2009/2000) ** (3958333/100000)' with the
>> >>> Pharo6.1 distribution and the vm crashed with she stack attached
>> >>> below.
>> >>> Tried it on both mac and windows 10.
>> >>> Seems that #raisedTo: has a special case for fractions that ends up
>> >>> calling #nthRoot: like '2009 nthRoot: 100000' leading to the crash.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The plugin is now fixed; see VMMaker.oscog-eem.2262.  I'll generate
>> >> code
>> >> soon (am debugging something you're familiar with that takes several
>> >> hours
>> >> to run and don't want to generate sources while it's running).  But I'm
>> >> glad
>> >> you've found a better way!  This case creates 600k byte large integers
>> >> and
>> >> takes forever to run :-)
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> Andrei
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 0xaddeac M LargePositiveInteger(Integer)>quo: 0x314093e8: a(n)
>> >>> LargePositiveInteger
>> >>> 0xaddec8 M LargePositiveInteger(LargeInteger)>quo: 0x314093e8: a(n)
>> >>> LargePositiveInteger
>> >>> 0xaddee8 M LargePositiveInteger(Integer)>// 0x314093e8: a(n)
>> >>> LargePositiveInteger
>> >>> 0xaddf04 M LargePositiveInteger(LargeInteger)>// 0x314093e8: a(n)
>> >>> LargePositiveInteger
>> >>> 0xaddf34 I LargePositiveInteger(Integer)>nthRootTruncated: 0x30cc8350:
>> >>> a(n) LargePositiveInteger
>> >>> 0xaddf5c I LargePositiveInteger(Integer)>nthRootRounded: 0x30cc8350:
>> >>> a(n)
>> >>> LargePositiveInteger
>> >>> 0xaddf88 I SmallInteger(Integer)>nthRoot: 0xfb3=2009
>> >>> 0xaddfb4 I Fraction>nthRoot: 0x4f9a940: a(n) Fraction
>> >>> 0xaddfd8 I Fraction(Number)>raisedTo: 0x4f9a940: a(n) Fraction
>> >>> 0xaddffc I Fraction(Number)>** 0x4f9a940: a(n) Fraction
>> >>> 0xade018 M UndefinedObject>DoIt 0x5fe5d00: a(n) UndefinedObject
>> >>> 0xade048 I OpalCompiler>evaluate 0x4f9a998: a(n) OpalCompiler
>> >>> 0xade074 I RubSmalltalkEditor>evaluate:andDo: 0x305e5878: a(n)
>> >>> RubSmalltalkEditor
>> >>> 0xade09c I RubSmalltalkEditor>highlightEvaluateAndDo: 0x305e5878: a(n)
>> >>> RubSmalltalkEditor
>> >>> 0xade0b8 M
>> >>> GLMMorphicPharoScriptRenderer(GLMMorphicPharoCodeRenderer)>popupPrint
>> >>> 0x3062fdc8: a(n) GLMMorphicPharoScri
>> >>> enderer
>> >>> 0xade0d8 I MorphicAlarm(MessageSend)>value 0x4f9ab20: a(n)
>> >>> MorphicAlarm
>> >>> 0xade0f4 M MorphicAlarm>value: 0x4f9ab20: a(n) MorphicAlarm
>> >>> 0xade114 M WorldState>triggerAlarmsBefore: 0x71bb5e0: a(n) WorldState
>> >>> 0xade140 M WorldState>runLocalStepMethodsIn: 0x71bb5e0: a(n)
>> >>> WorldState
>> >>> 0xade164 M WorldState>runStepMethodsIn: 0x71bb5e0: a(n) WorldState
>> >>> 0xade180 M WorldMorph>runStepMethods 0x6ab7778: a(n) WorldMorph
>> >>> 0xade198 M WorldState>doOneCycleNowFor: 0x71bb5e0: a(n) WorldState
>> >>> 0xade1b4 M WorldState>doOneCycleFor: 0x71bb5e0: a(n) WorldState
>> >>> 0xade1d0 M WorldMorph>doOneCycle 0x6ab7778: a(n) WorldMorph
>> >>> 0xade1e8 M WorldMorph class>doOneCycle 0x6a9f960: a(n) WorldMorph
>> >>> class
>> >>> 0xade200 M [] in MorphicUIManager>spawnNewProcess 0x2cc88718: a(n)
>> >>> MorphicUIManager
>> >>> 0xade220 I [] in BlockClosure>newProcess 0x2f178150: a(n) BlockClosure
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> >> best, Eliot
>> >
>>
>>
>

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