Hi Bert,

on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:17:10 +0200, you wrote:
> Am 17.09.2006 um 03:37 schrieb Klaus D. Witzel:
>
>> Not doing anything but waiting for Godot has nothing to do with  
>> innovation, only with stagnation, IMO.
>
> Keep on discussing, implementing, benchmarking, etc. :) This might even  
> convince people that rather want to err on the conservative side.

:)

> For example, I'd strongly oppose anything that reduces general send  
> performance,

I think about moving the glue (in #commonSend, #commonReturn) out of the  
way, to a place where performance cannot not suffer, where the price is  
already payed: 0% .

> whereas requiring a new VM for a new image to run at full speed is fine  
> by me.

That's perhaps the best way to distribute it, as an optional .mcz package  
(the user just recompiles the VM), together with the changes to the  
Collection hierarchy. So the burden is not on the VM maintainers (and  
other maintainers). Applying kiss.

/Klaus

> - Bert -