[Help-smalltalk] Re: OO languages are spoiling us...

[Stefan Schmiedl]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:39:32 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm forwarding an obvious point from Stefan on memory usage, that he 
> wrote to me offlist:
> 
> >> >  Only negative point, garbage is not reclaimed well so running "ruby
> >> >  mech.rb 80" twice will take 174 megabytes.  I didn't check whether
> >> >  compacting between the two runs would affect the memory consumption.
> >
> > That's not too bad, since the web app does not know that the
> > first 80 clients are gone for good. Running "mech.rb 80" twice
> > should (now) be only slightly better than running "mech.rb 160".

just ran mech.rb 80 twice: RSIZE reached 228052 kB on my box.
then mech.rb 160: RSIZE 230416

Running
        gst-remote --eval "ObjectMemory compact"
after mech.rb 160 finished had an interesting effect: RSIZE 238792

s.