2008/8/18 Michael Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hilaire Fernandes wrote: >> >> What is cycle of unused objects? Circular references of unused objects? >> >> What I did, for the Drgeo canvas, when the user ask to dismiss it, I >> am releasing and forcing to nil the instance variables. But it brings >> other problems. >> I ma curious to know how developers handle this problem. > > You normally don't need to nil out the variables unless you want to make > sure that an object is easily recognized as invalid (e.g. you check for nil > values elsewhere). > > When objects don't get garbage collected they often are registered somewhere > as dependents, in caches or similar places.
This is exactly what I thought at first, but I still see some instances lying in my image, I am indeed using dependents but I take care of releasing it. Hilaire _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
