[squeak-dev] The Trunk: MorphicExtras-nice.137.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Dec 20 23:52:37 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:14:11AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:13:29AM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> > 
> > I opened http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7799 just in case.
> > 
> 
> I think there are two things we should test:
> 
> 1) Check if the extra computation has an effect on performance.
> 
> 2) Check to make sure the logic works on the 64 bit image, to make sure
> that the 4 bytes per word does the right thing (I think that it will work,
> and I can follow up on this later to be sure).
> 

Just to follow up on #2, I wrote a test primitive that confirms that the
logic works correctly on a 64-bit object memory. So no worries there, and
as previously discussed, performance is not a problem.

Dave




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