Code coverage
Craig Latta
craig at netjam.org
Tue Jan 17 01:38:08 UTC 2006
Hi Tony--
> > (The Spoon VM has a distinct [object header format field value] for
> > methods which have been run.)
>
> (This sounds like the hook for an interesting conversation!) Why?
Oh, just to have a convenient way for the VM to mark a method when
running it, and to check later whether a method has been run. The
original motivation was for detecting methods which hadn't been run, so
they could be discarded.
-C
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Craig Latta
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