A question about #become: (was: Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] Squeak 5)
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Wed Aug 12 18:57:04 UTC 2015
On 12-08-2015, at 11:20 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> I wonder if you're creating two forwarders in case of #become:, with objects of different size, or just one forwarder for the larger object while copying the smaller object over the larger one (when possible).
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> Right now it's the simplest thing that could possibly work. I think this is a great idea though. It would potentially eliminate the post-become stack scan if all objects can be becomed either by exchanging contents or (in one-way) shortening. Alas I don't have time for this right now. Any volunteers interested?
Huh; I thought you had done that ages ago. I recall suggesting it really early in your spur work and could have sworn you did it right then.
tim
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