I also can't wait to have a slot to automatically add instance variables in the additional method state for CompiledMethod subclasses. This shouldn't be tricky for you any more, should it ? I'm bored of not being able to add instance variables to compiledMethod subclasses :-).
Having automatically inst vars in a dictionary is interesting it could allow to have more inst vars than the maximum limit. 2015-02-05 16:51 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr>: > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> > wrote: > >> >> Next: Hidden ivar >> >> >> > This is now finally in #478. This is for notch just a subclass to have a > normal InstanceVariable in a hidden version, > later we will use the wrapping machism that we use already for MetaLinks > to make it possible to hide any slot. > (e.g. BooleanSlot will use a BitFieldSlot that might span multiple ivars). > > For the first version this simple version should be enough. > > Marcus >