How are Block Closures?

Timothy Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Wed Feb 4 01:30:19 UTC 2004


On Feb 3, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> Fantastic, thank you Marcus!  I had asked about this a couple of years 
> ago, and
> Tim Rowledge indicated that his 'New CompiledMethod' stuff was planned 
> to be
> part of it.
Ah. Now that is probably a different kettle of coloured horses. Anthony 
included the redefined CM stuff in his initial work BUT in order to 
make Closures work in a more 'ordinary' VM environment he reworked 
things to not rely upon it. The cost of the new format is an image 
backwards compatibility break, and peple have been very leery of that.

tim




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