Riccardo Lucchese wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:48 PM, karl <karl.ramberg at comhem.se> wrote:
>   
>>  Is that 20/30 % overall speedup ? If so, it is great!
>>
>>  Karl
>>
>>     
>
> I'm working on one function at time as they step up in the profiling results.
>
> Cannot say what the overall improvements exactly is; in the patched code
> execution time is dominated by primitiveWarpBits instead of the
> interpret function.
> As those two functions  are largely the most cpu intensive ones I think that
> the overall speedup is quite sensible.
>
>
> Anybody already working on performances in squeak ?; I'd really
> like to help in this part of the platform !
>   
Your effort is greatly appreciated, A faster VM is a good thing.
I think the VM list is where primitive and plugin questions are mostly 
addressed:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/vm-dev
Karl