Andreas Raab wrote:
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> That is most likely correct. Have a look at the current Compiler and 
> ParseNodes which were written in the ugly old days and notice how they 
> painfully avoid sending messages, and how they use pools for stuff 
> that's considered really bad style today. What has changed since the old 
> days is the general attitude - we happily pay the "price" of the extra 
> message if it gives us a bit more flexibility, if it makes the code a 
> little more easy to read. This simply didn't used to be the case "back 
> then" and MVC is one of the areas that is full of "good old code" - I 
> bet you a "modern" MVC would not perform any better or worse than Morphic.
>

If sending extra messages makes something x-times slower no one should 
pay such a price "happily". Nothing is gained if something is flexible 
but hardly anyone - read: roughly one or two orders of magnitude fewer 
than potentially possible - uses it because of its slowness.

Regards
Martin