Adding loop primitives/optimizations

Lyndon Tremblay humasect at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 2 19:34:43 UTC 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus Denker" <denker at iam.unibe.ch>
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Subject: Re: Adding loop primitives/optimizations


>
> Am 02.12.2004 um 04:09 schrieb Lyndon Tremblay:
>
> > Optimisations, eh? How about a courser-grained scope; What is the
> > status of
> > "J5" and "VI4"? Wiki pages say 3.2.
> >
>
> VI4 was an experiment of Anthony hannan, the result is the
> closurecompiler on
> SqueakMap. (the changes to bytecodes, stack layout... have been
> abandoned).
>
> The status for the Jitter is unkown.
>
>      Marcus
>
>

VI4 is documented to also meant to be an image format change - this means
either these changes are already in and the closure compiler is optional, or
the result of the experiment was just the closure compiler itself. Am I
close? I find if (useJit) and #ifdef JITTER in I believe both the Mac VM and
Unix VM sources. (not in Win32)

-Lyndon




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