On 26 Feb 2015, at 14:02, Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com> wrote:

With Camille we spent some minutes introducing a weak slot. A weak slot with a weak reference i.e., it is not taken into account by the garbage collector. If an object is only referenced by weak references it will be garbage collected.

The nice thing about this is that now we can mix transparently weak and non-weak slots inside the same object. For example:

Object subclass: #MyWeakThingy
    slots: { #weakLala => WeakSlot.

                #normalInstVar }
    classVariables: {  }
    category: ���SlotTestGuille'

We also implemented with Camille the #emit* methods to make it a bit faster. A simple benchmark in my machine shows that