[etoys-dev] Pharo speedup -> morphic extension performance hit

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Nov 20 14:23:12 EST 2009


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> I'd love to see measurements. In Etoys we don't really use Windows much. But viewers etc. are made up of many morphs, so this could very well be an improvement.
> 

I would suspect significant improvements if the majority of the flags 
move directly into a bitflags field in class Morph. It reduces space 
usage and speeds up access. However, migration of old projects will be 
tricky.

Cheers,
   - Andreas


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