> >> Henry, >> >> I would not toss your first thought too quickly. Staying clear of >> finalization is a big benefit. I have never been able to trust it (for >> files) on Dolphin, which has a remarkably better implementation of weak >> collections and finalization than Squeak/Pharo. >> >> Bill >> > > Stephane's question was not what it should do differently though, but > what it did do differently ;) > > For information: > (1 to: 3) collect: [:h | [CompiledMethod allInstancesDo: [:each | each > getSourceFromFile]] timeToRun] > > Standard way, which both registers in the FileRegistry, and does close > at end of getSourceFromFile: > #(13348 12786 12712) > > Explicit closing with readOnlyFileNamed:do: > #(12091 12061 12189) > > Considering the amount of work done in reading each source, that's not > entirely insignificant, > but it requires quite a large amount of additional private protocol in > the FileStream classes...
you lost me there can you explain why do you want to add private protocol to FileStream _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
