Anthony Hannan <ajh18 at cornell.edu> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> The VM hard codes certain compact class indexes for speed (avoiding
> special objects lookup).  See Interpreter >> #isContextHeader: and its
> senders.
Good catch. So in that case I think one could profile quite adequately
without bothering to uncompact compiled & block contexts and methods -
since the time cost is more or less gone anyway. The space cost can
obviously be infered reasonably well.

tim
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