"Just Curious" VM question

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Sep 16 22:58:57 UTC 2003


"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Yay! This means that "*fooPtr()" should be as fast as "foo()" which did not
> use to be the case. So we should in fact be able to switch over to a
> function call instead of the (awkward) case dispatch in #primitiveResponse.
> 
> Hey, Tim, up for it? ;-)
It's been on my hope-to-do list for ages. It would be nice to imagine
somebody providing food money while I do it, so that I can spend time
that is currently spent scavenging in gutters for spare change.

tim
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Useful random insult:- A one-bit brain with a parity error.



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