[squeak-dev] Thoughts about Cog and "tracing" etc

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 08:44:23 UTC 2009


2009/6/24 Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se>:
> Hi!
>
> Just dug up their paper on TraceMonkey for PLDI 2009:
>
>        http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/tracemonkey-paper-pldi-2009/
>
> Seemingly a really nice detailed paper!
>

Lets wait till they add the resursion & tail call handling. Because
without it, their JIT really sucks on recursive benchs  :)

Or, better, replace a 'loop' as a cornerstone of design, with tail-call :

whileTrue: aBlock
  [ self value ] whileTrue: [ aBlockValue]


;)

> regards, Göran
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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