On Nov 13, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Results for VisualAge (just FYI):
>
> | count |
> count := 0.
> [1 to: 10000000 do: [:i | count :=count + 1]] timeToRun. "151702"
>
> | count |
> count := 0.
> [10000000 timesRepeat: [count := count + 1]] timeToRun. "139971"
>
> (results are in microseconds)
>
> So maybe there's a case for inlining #timesRepeat: (or making a clear comment
> that it is much slower in Pharo)
>
In general inlining is evil ;-)
timesRepeat for the special case of being send to an int, detected
statically... maybe I could be convinced of that.
But in general, what would be much nicer would be to do it based on
type-feedback information nicely hidden so nobody sees
it.
Marcus
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