[VM] NCM performance report

Peter Crowther peter.crowther at it-iq.com
Tue Apr 6 10:16:41 UTC 1999


> Say possibly 4000 Closures in a ful image? If Closures were
> header/closureheader/bytecodepointer, that would add ~50kb to
> the image in
> return for quite a bit of performance, block temporaries
> (yay!) and block
> recursion. I'd go for that quite happily.

And simplification in the debugger and interpreter, likely easier exception
handling, and my secure image being able to pass around security on block
invocations :-).  'Yes please' would be the polite way of putting it.

		- Peter





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