John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:


> 
> Ah, it's late and I must be missing why we do this? couldn't we just 
> inline primitivePointX maybe even forgo the externalizeIPandSP.
> 
> Maybe it will be come obvious in the morning?
Primitives are not inlined into other functions!

I think you could reasonably edit the relevant code into the bytecode
special routine though, just like some of the others.

tim
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