New CompiledMethod format images available

Pennell's pennell at tiac.net
Tue Dec 1 12:12:36 UTC 1998


I for one would be happy to see the 2.3 Beta period extended beyond
the normal period if we could get these changes incorporated.
We will get a lot more experimentation with the new source pointer
objects if its included in a standard released VM.

-david
>Unlike with the little endian bitblt, I'm not going to try and push this
>stuff; if people want to use it, let's say so and do it, otherwise I'll
>save my time for building airplanes. Since the 2.3 needs a new vm anyway,
>and the source/changes files have got rather big, how about doing a big
>cleanup, changing method format, clean out the split instvar numbering,
>condense the sources and feel better for Solstice? Sort of make it all
>squeaky clean :-) Oh yeah, all the non-essential prims should lose their
>numbers and be named.





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