[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Kernel-ul.664.mcz

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Jan 9 15:03:35 UTC 2012


On 09.01.2012, at 15:46, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
>> On 09.01.2012, at 14:19, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> 
>>> How important is the performance of #pointsTo:?
>> 
>> 
>> It's more important to be correct than to be fast - and I agree finding pointers is its main purpose, so your fix looks like an improvement.
>> 
>> How about implementing identityIncludes: in Array using primitive 132? That would suit my use case just fine.
> 
> That's possible, but there are many other ArrayedCollections which could benefit from it (String, ByteArray, WordArray, etc).


Primitive 132 only works for pointer objects.

- Bert -




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