Re: What I found out about memory usage with xprint

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

PJ> I found using xprint(aZone) on a zone with lots of objects gives this
PJ> kind of uninformative statement:

Use xfprint (aZone) to see the population list.

PJ> 2.  What is an internal object or block, incidentally?

An internal object is an object that isn't counted in the population.
The idea was to make items in the population be the high-level
components that the model implementor describes, not lots of
Swarm-internal objects that come as a side effect from inside those
high-level components.

A block is a raw chunk of memory.  The `internal' allocations are from
allocBlock: and the `alloc' blocks are from alloc:.

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