[squeak-dev] Re: Instance variable access in superclasses.

Vassili Bykov smalltalkbigot at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 00:24:45 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> It's neither insane nor is an inlining JIT is a strict necessity. Tweak for
> example uses property dictionaries throughout and although it's slower than
> I'd like it to be it's certainly acceptable for most situations. Also,
> doesn't Newspeak use messages for *all* accessors?

Yes, it does, and it's very nice especially considering that classes
are mixins, and inst var index base is different in different mixin
applications.

--Vassili



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