Peephole Optimization for MC

Avi Bryant avi.bryant at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 08:59:01 UTC 2005


On Sep 14, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Alexander Lazarević wrote:

> While doing a load MC spends almost 40% of the time investigating  
> method
> timestamps, which seems to be costly because they have to be looked up
> in sources and changes files. I speculate that peephole optimizing  
> this
> by having the timestamp be a method annotation instead could work
> especially to the benefit of MC loading times. No?

Yes.  I wouldn't mind having the whole method source as an  
annotation, in fact...

Avi



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