[squeak-dev] Re: Strange primitives doing nothing

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Nov 7 18:53:02 UTC 2008


Igor Stasenko wrote:
> Ah, now i get it. Its testing a method's primitive index to detect if
> method needs special marking.
> So, behavior based on primitive index, not on actual primitive
> implementation... Tricky.

Correct. The main reason is that otherwise you'd need additional header 
bits so the  primitive index is a cheap way to avoid that need.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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