[squeak-dev] Re: MessageTally problems

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Apr 23 15:55:32 UTC 2010


On 4/23/2010 7:52 AM, Brent Pinkney wrote:
>
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-February/134405.html
>
> Any ideas on why the primitive clock-check was removed from the VM ?

Performance. It somewhat slowed primitive dispatch since a timer check 
had to be done for each primitive.

Cheers,
   - Andreas





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