> >   The single cycle
>>   thing isn't necessarily relevant for Smalltalk,  but those "extended"
>>   bytecodes are really distasteful to me.
>
>I find them distasteful too.  I also find the multiple object header
>formats equally distasteful.  OTOH, every little bit counts when trying to
>minimise the size of the image -- and there a more than a few people
>putting Squeak to work on severely limited machines.

Well, bytecodes do have their place, of course ;-).

But it's great to hear you guys finding the whole current mess distasteful...

Fire up those new-age compilers and take us into the new world!

	- D