Ramblings on how to optimize Squeak for modern CPU bit
manipulation (Was Re: I was wondering ...
Daniel Vainsencher
danielv at netvision.net.il
Wed Jun 23 18:44:48 UTC 1999
[About adding cutting-edge bit-flipping to Squeak]
The general direction is to make the best of the best that is generally
portable.
Nobody'd stop you from implementing anything for your favorite platform (and
it'd make a bunch of XYZ-platform-users happy) but it probably won't go
main-squeak-stream.
On the other hand, if you can significantly improve what's there, in a LCD
(maybe GCD is more appropriate ;-) manner, we'd all be very happy.
Daniel
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