On Feb 21, 2012, at 07:07, Janko Mivšek wrote:
> - more stability,
This is the biggest thing for me. I'm trying to get my Analysis of Algorithms
students to recognise and value a powerful environment like Pharo Smalltalk,
but some of them are experiencing so many crashes that they've taken to
entering their code in Notepad and then pasting it into Pharo!!! This is not a
strong advert for Smalltalk or Pharo.
I suspect many of these crashes are stack overflows. I *thought* that
Squeak/Pharo was supposed to recognise stack overflow, but I just wrote a
method:
crash
^self crash + 4
and my image grew to 500+MB and then crashed. This is with Pharo 1.3
one-click. With 1.1 one-click, I *do* get the Low space window popping up at
516MB (although I don't appear able to do much... it doesn't even seem to
quit-no-save); I eventually did a force-quit. This is all on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
The 1.3 says:
VM: Mac OS - intel - 1068 - Croquet Closure Cog VM
[CoInterpreter VMMaker-oscog- IgorStasenko.123] 21.0
Image: Pharo1.3 [Latest update: #13307]
How can I get more stability? Is it time to move to 1.4? Is there something I
or my students can do to help?
Thanks for everybody's efforts!
../Dave
