Not to be inflammatory, the weak collections have been broken all along. They are not thread safe, and so cannot hope to be adequately cleaned as objects are finalized. My efforts to compensate have been aimed at clearing away nils that are left behind. If the weak collection itself is busted (holds too strongly??), then my additions are not going to help.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henrik Johansen Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] starting to think about 1.1 freeze WeakKeyDictionary, to be specific. To be frank, to me the new implementation in 1.1 seems simply broken. Cheers, Henry Den 24. apr. 2010 kl. 22.58 skrev "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected] >: > Stef, > > What do you mean by "weak structures?" Weak collections? > > Bill > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pharo- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] starting to think about 1.1 freeze > > ok but this is still good to know what we could wrap up. > Now I'm fixing some tests if somebody wants to help there are some > problems on weak structures. > > Stef > On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Marcus Denker wrote: > >> >> On Apr 23, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: >> >>> Stef, >>> >>> I will soon reach a point of missing a way to do callbacks. Alien/ >>> FFI is listed among the goals, and I would very much like to see >>> that happen, especially if callbacks are well supported as a result. >>> >> >> But what we should *not* do is to delay the release for that. >> Releases >> should be a snapshot of what is already done. 1.1 *as it is now* >> (minus bugs) is already a huge step forward. If we delay that to make >> it even better, we will again delay the release for a looong time. >> >> I vote for just defininf 1.1 as what 1.1 is *now* and stabilize it. >> There will be a 1.2 anyway. >> >> Marcus >> >> >> >> -- >> Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord >> Europe. Team RMoD. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
