>         I was happily browsing code when I suddenly encountered that method
>         Does anybody know what it measn to return #compiledMethod?
> 
>     That you have half literals (pointers) and half bytecodes (bytes) in
>     the indexed instance variables.  This was probably done in the blue
>     book for size optimization, but it is much less relevant today.
> 
> I disagree that its less relevant.  These hybrid things are more compact 
> and faster to interpret.

I guess we're bound to disagree on this. :-)

Paolo