Jan. 20, 2009
3:18 p.m.
After finding in Damien Cassou's web pages that a clean build of Pharo uses version 3.9.1 of the virtual machine, I have found Pharo to be very solid with a light-load test. I left the image running for 5 days, with 2 hours of browsing code per day (including do-its on classes I wanted to explore) and a little code authoring, and the system continued to behave as-expected. There were no large and obvious memory losses and no lock-ups. It appears very stable -- the image I am using is about 10 days old. One problem: none of the first web pages I encountered leading me to download Pharo indicated which VM to use. (And that's why I first went to 3.10.2 and had flaky behavior.) Very nice works people! Gratefully, Cam