[Magma] performance (was: test result)

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Wed Aug 7 14:15:07 UTC 2002


Stephen Pair <spair at acm.org> said:
>	^(self lastDigit bitShift: 8) + (self digitAt: 1)
>
>Is this a hold-over from the days of 16bit pointers?  Should this method
>be changed to "self bitAnd: 16r3FFFFFFF"?
>
I think so. I'm getting boring here (but, hey, I've got VW running all the
time and it's nice to compare these siblings from time to time ;-)), but VW
has the same Integer>>hash. When both versions have something unlogical, I
usually attribute it to Ye Olde Days When They Were One...

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