Nuking objects when changing pages?

> Hi all.. I guess this is a question of style and garbage collection of
> sorts..  I've got a shopping cart as I mentioned earlier in several
> other email threads -- my question is what to do with the cart
> contents (and the object itself) when the user changes to another page
> thereby discarding what was in the cart (this cart does not work like
> a cart at Amazon or whatever -- when you leave a specific order page
> the cart is to be discarded).. Anyway, initially I was thinking that I
> could just set my cart object to be "nil" and let the garbage
> collector do its task -- but I'm wondering if its worth my time to do
> a bit of manual cleanup to reduce the amount of work the GC has to
> do.. Is it worth it and are there any pitfalls from going down that
> path -- any alternatives that are better?
>
> Anyway -- I guess it's more of a general ST question as well..
>
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> From a general Smalltalk perspective, I don't go helping the GC in the
> normal course of things. I have tuned Smalltalk apps, but not Seaside.
>
> Just remove the pointer and let the GC clean up after me. Setting to
> nil works for instance variables, remove the key in a dictionary, or
> if it is a temporary, simply let it fall out of scope.
>
> If I had some evidence from a profiling session that showed it was
> hurting, I'd consider it. I'd probably look at different GC settings
> before I started adding tweaks to my app.
>
> Of course, I'd document the tune and make it easy to remove later
> (perhaps by adding a method call). A tune here could be the bottleneck
> there -- different VM, GC implementation, hardware, customer, etc.
>
> Rick Flower wrote:
>
>> Hi all.. I guess this is a question of style and garbage collection
>> of sorts..  I've got a shopping cart as I mentioned earlier in
>> several other email threads -- my question is what to do with the
>> cart contents (and the object itself) when the user changes to
>> another page thereby discarding what was in the cart (this cart does
>> not work like a cart at Amazon or whatever -- when you leave a
>> specific order page the cart is to be discarded).. Anyway, initially
>> I was thinking that I could just set my cart object to be "nil" and
>> let the garbage collector do its task -- but I'm wondering if its
>> worth my time to do a bit of manual cleanup to reduce the amount of
>> work the GC has to do.. Is it worth it and are there any pitfalls
>> from going down that path -- any alternatives that are better?
>>
>> Anyway -- I guess it's more of a general ST question as well..
>>
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