[ENH request] self class.
Marcus Denker
denker at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Oct 15 21:41:44 UTC 2004
Am 15.10.2004 um 23:14 schrieb lex at cc.gatech.edu:
>
> Given that you can easily disable the optimization if you need to, I
> don't see the big fuss. At best, it seems worth removing it if there
> is
> no performance gain. If there is a performance gain, though, why not
> leave it in?
>
>
[1000000 timesRepeat: [Object class]] timeToRun
With special bytecode: 514
Without: 579
So it's around 10% slower. I don't think this kind of improvement
(for this kind of operation, which is not perfomance-critical)
would make us today decide to add a special bytecode.
So we should remove it to make the system simpler.
Marcus
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