> On 04.01.2020, at 12:05, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Fabio, Levente,
> I'd like to proceed with restoring input interpreter health along with promotion of new VM.
> IMO pure optimization can go in trunk if not too complex, nor raise too many questions.
> RunArray optimization can wait for example.
> 
> I'd like to underline the tremendous work performed by Marcel so far.
> It's possible that the release was a bit frozen because he took a few days off.
> These were well-earned!
> 

Hear, Hear!


> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le sam. 4 janv. 2020 à 04:32, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> a écrit :
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> I don't remember having so many new entries in the Inbox during previous 
> releases. Also, I feel like this release is taking a bit too long to be 
> ready.
> I asked you about your commit because there are a few other "performance 
> bugfixes" waiting in the Inbox, but I'm not sure if they should be pushed 
> now or not.
> Also, that indentity check you just added to #sameAs: could be added to 
> other related comparison methods too (#compare:caseSensitive:, 
> #compare:with:collated:, even to the primitive #primitiveCompareString).
> 
> 
> Levente
> 
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
> 
> > Hi Levente,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 11:55 PM Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> >       It's a nice improvement, but isn't it feature freeze with "only bugfixes,
> >       but no new features"?
> > 
> > 
> > I was considering this one a performance bugfix, not a new feature. Not sure how we treated these simple cases in the past.
> > 
> > Fabio
> >  
> >
> >       Levente
> >
> >       On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
> >
> >       > Fabio Niephaus uploaded a new version of Collections to project The Trunk:
> >       > http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Collections-fn.869.mcz
> >       >
> >       > ==================== Summary ====================
> >       >
> >       > Name: Collections-fn.869
> >       > Author: fn
> >       > Time: 3 January 2020, 10:27:08.945712 am
> >       > UUID: c29ef38b-f152-468e-bac9-74515c099ac4
> >       > Ancestors: Collections-nice.868
> >       >
> >       > Add quick-check for identity to String>>sameAs: (similar to Character>>sameAs:).
> >       >
> >       > Example:
> >       > [MenuIcons smallInspectItIconContents sameAs: MenuIcons smallInspectItIconContents] bench
> >       >
> >       > Before:
> >       > 1,740,000 per second. 574 nanoseconds per run. 0 % GC time.
> >       >
> >       > After:
> >       > 94,800,000 per second. 10.5 nanoseconds per run. 0 % GC time.
> >       >
> >       > =============== Diff against Collections-nice.868 ===============
> >       >
> >       > Item was changed:
> >       >  ----- Method: String>>sameAs: (in category 'comparing') -----
> >       >  sameAs: aString
> >       >       "Answer whether the receiver sorts equal to aString. The
> >       >       collation sequence is ascii with case differences ignored."
> >       > +     self == aString ifTrue: [ ^true ].
> >       >       ^(self compare: aString caseSensitive: false) = 2!
> > 
> > 
> >
>