[Enh][VM] primitiveApplyToFromTo for the heart of theenumeration of collections?

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 17 19:09:06 UTC 2006




>From: Bryce Kampjes <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: [Enh][VM] primitiveApplyToFromTo for the heart of 
>theenumeration of collections?
>Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:22:25 +0100
>
>Exupery is relevant if we're
>talking about Squeak's performance over the next few years. Exupery is
>Squeak's and Smalltalk's best current hope of beating both Strongtalk
>and Selfs pioneering work on high performance implementation's.
>
A JIT is certainly important.  Especially in deployment mode.  I'm glad it's 
being worked on.

>Anthony Hannan's send performance work was rejected even though it
>did speed up sends and came with proper block closures. Proper block
>closures are something we really should have.
>

Why was this rejected?





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