[squeak-dev] [Cuis] Optimizing away unused literals

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Sat Feb 13 22:04:15 UTC 2010


keith wrote:
>
> On 13 Feb 2010, at 21:11, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>
>> keith wrote:
>>> In using Cuis, I discover that unused literals in a method, 
>>> otherwise known as "poor-mans pragmas" are optimized away in 
>>> compiledMethod. Does anyone know when this happened? (or was I using 
>>> some other method to find them)
>>>
>>> Keith
>>
>> Well, the same also happens in Squeak, Pharo and Cuis 1.0 
>> (pre-closures). I'd say it has always been like this. See #flag: . It 
>> is dated 4/28/2000, and serves your purpose.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>
> It didn't happen in squeak 3.9
>
> Keith
>
Yes it did. Just tried in Squeak3.9-final-7067.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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