2009/11/13 Martin McClure <mar...@hand2mouse.com>:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> No, please no more inilining hacks. :)
>> If someone wants to run everything at light speed - just code in C,
>> but leave smalltalk honoring the
>> message passing.
>> And besides, these tricks won't make any difference when having good
>> inlining JIT.
>> In bytecode, they just add a complexity to compiler and headache to 
>> developers.
>
> +64 to banning bytecode compiler hacks and instead concentrate on
> producing an inlining JIT.
>
> -Martin
>

The former is very easy, ugly and cheap.
The later neither is easy nor cheap, and i doubt many of us will
concentrate on this.
Unless "concentrate" means "wait for Eliot's changes and pray".
This can be reformulated as "don't bother on such details untill then".

;)

Nicolas

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