On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hi! > > The garbage collection offered by the Pharo VM has two divisions. One for > young objects, and another for old objects. I was wondering when a young > object become old? I start to have a pretty good idea for human beings, but > I am not so sure for Pharo objects. > Is it when the object survives its first garbage collection? > > Hi Alexandre. I am still newbie with VM stuff, but as I understood, yes, young objects become old when they survive to thei first incremental GC. Notice the INCREMENTAL GC and not FULL GC. But I may be wrong...so I will let other to answer properly ;) I have just looked at the code and I am not sure where that movement happens :( Cheers Mariano > Cheers, > Alexandre > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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