I wrote:
> 
> The receiver of a message like
>         perform:withArguments:
> is necessary just to find the corresponding CompiledMethod in its class
> or superclass. For executing a CompiledMethod which doesn't refer to the
> class where it belongs to, we don't need this class.
> 
> So we don't need a receiver to execute *such* a compiledMethod!
> 
> But if it accesses e.g. inst vars of an object instance of some class
> where it has been compiled in, then we are not able to use it senseful
> with other receivers not being instances of this class.

It would be a problem already, if there is just a
	^self
inside the compiled method... (this refers to a receiver)

Stephan

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Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
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