On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John M McIntosh wrote:

> on 8/23/00 10:20 AM, Tim Rowledge at tim at sumeru.stanford.edu wrote:
> 
> > That was Andreas' way of making an old 'numbered-prim' image work with a
> > newer 'named-prim' VM. The table can be removed someday. Nothing to do
> > with performance.
> 
> Seems to me someone could write a small change set, that trundles thru your
> image and alters all usage of the official number primitives to the named
> primitives. 

Well, "someday" would probably mean "when Squeak 3.0 is out" because you
would loose the ability to run older images.

-- Bert