[DISCUSSION] Is Squeak/Smalltalk able to do this?

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Feb 8 07:23:23 UTC 2003


Look at the coverage browser developed by michel tilman:
http://users.pandora.be/michel.tilman/Smalltalk/


On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 04:59 AM, Doug Clapp wrote:

> Given that Squeak is "reflective," would it be possible
> to write code such that...
>
> -- the system was "watched" as it was exercised, and...
>
> -- attention was paid to which "cases"  (ifTrue/ifFalse)
> were triggered more often, and...
>
> -- the methods were then re-written to have the "most
> likely (often)"if" be placed first in the method, to speed
> up the execution of "most often done things"?
>
> Obviously, this idea could be taken much further...
>
> doug clapp
>
>
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