> On 19 Feb 2015, at 10:45, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>>
>> -> generate better byte code, the reflective read is of course slow.
>
>
> this is easy. What we need to do is to override #emitValue: and #emitStore:
>
> emitValue: methodBuilder
>
> methodBuilder
> pushInstVar: baseSlot index;
> pushLiteral: self name;
> pushLiteral: nil;
> send: #at:ifAbsent:
>
> for storing, the problem is that the value to be saved is on top of the
> stack. so
> we need to first save it and pop it off to be able to use #at:put::
>
> emitStore: methodBuilder
> | tempName |
>
> tempName := ('0generated_',self name) asSymbol.
>
> methodBuilder
> addTemp: tempName;
> storeTemp: tempName;
> popTop;
> pushInstVar: baseSlot index;
> pushLiteral: self name;
> pushTemp: tempName;
> send: #at:put:
>
>
committed.
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14962/emit-bytecode-for-PropertySlot-improve-generated-code-for-reflective-write-for-Slots-and-Globals
This in addition uses the same trick of the temp to not need a writeToSlot:of:
method in object for the default code generated for
reflective write of slots.
Marcus
