Better integer performance possible?
Stephan Rudlof
stephan.rudlof at ipk.fhg.de
Tue Oct 26 09:22:56 UTC 1999
Dan,
> There are three reasons LargeInts are slower:
>
> It is all written in ST (no primitive support)
> The inner loops runs byte by byte
> [FYI, they were written when Squeak had 12-bit smallInts
> -- can you guess out why?]
> Squeak does not have a JIT -- yet.
>
I guess: Four bits for addressing often used classes, 16-bit machine.
Stephan
sr (stephan.rudlof at ipk.fhg.de)
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