John M McIntosh wrote:

>> As a result I wrote a test procedure to check the old versus new   
>> allocation routines which iterates over all 393,216 combinations of  
>> the class type (2 bits in the hash field, 5 bits of compact class  
>> index, 4 bits of object format, 6 bits of object size) with an  
>> additional range  0-4 bytes for indexable size, plus of course a bit  
>> of fiddling to ensure object size never is zero.
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> Oops it's actually 458,751 iterations plus a change to -5 indexable  
> size to capture the mod 4 calculation.
> This works just fine.  The overnight testing worked great too, so 
> I'll  post the change set and performance numbers in a bit.
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John,

Are you not at Smalltalk Solutions?  If not, then we're going to miss 
out on your excellent trip reports.

Nevin

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