> On 11 Nov 2019, at 12:57, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> During our work we encountered two issues we think should be considered
> critical.
>
> The first is that the garbage collector is unreliable on larger images:
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/391
> We stumble on this when we manipulate larger pieces of data quite
> consistently in plain Pharo (7 or 8). We lack the knowledge of how to
> approach it, but we would happily pair and try to reproduce it with someone.
>
> The second one is that the sources contain wrong pointers, and this makes it
> hard to work with TFFI:
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/4967
> This is already marked as important. We spent quite some time investigating
> this, especially in the context of TFFI, and we would be happy to pair to
> work through it.
>
This one I want to have a look at… I think the solution is to remove the magic
and maybe even think about integrating the FFI plugin into the compiler.
I am available Tuesday afternoon.
Marcus
