> I just uploaded the change set to generalize the use of the
> new-initialize pattern.

Great, but where?

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Serge Stinckwich
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 8:45 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [KCP] new initialize pattern
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Noury got some email problems, so i forward his message to the list.
> 
> ----- Message transféré de bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr -----
>    Date : Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:27:16 +0200
>      De : bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr
>   Sujet : [KCP]new initialize pattern
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just uploaded the change set to generalize the use of the
> new-initialize 
> pattern. This makes every object answer the initialize message (empty
> method 
> hold by Object). The new and new: methods hold by Behavior 
> are redefined
> to 
> send the initialize message to every new instance.
> I also removed all other redefinition of new or new: that 
> does the same
> job.
> 
> In order to evaluate the effect of this change on performance I run 
> macrobenchmark on my laptop PIII 1.2GH with 256MB RAM. Here are the
> result I 
> got.
> 
> -Before loading the change set: #(6187 68898 21508 9724 0 7097 7097)
> 
> -After loading the change set: #(6683 70241 21210 10757 0 6815 6815).
> 
> -Percentages of After/Below:  #(108 101 98 110 - 96 96)
> 
> When percentage are less than 100, they mean that the change improve 
> performance.
> 
> Noury
> 
> 
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