[Vm-dev] Bug in Interpreter>>primitiveNextPut:

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> I wouldn't bother trying to fix the primitive.  Both in VisualWorks and 
> at Teleplace the experience has been the same, getting rid of the 
> primitives for next, nextPut: and atEnd sped things up.  The system is 
> simply too complex nowadays for these primitives to pay for themselves 
> because they only cover a small number of cases.  The primitives support 
> Array and ByteString bow there are so many different kinds of arrays being 
> streamed over that the cost of primitive failures outweigh the benefits 
> of primitive successes.

We are using these primitives in our own stream implementation like this:

next

 	<primitive: 65>
 	[ position < readLimit ] whileFalse: [ self receiveData ].
 	^buffer at: (position := position + 1)

And it does make a difference (buffer is a 8kiB sized ByteArray). Would 
this be faster without the primitive?

Levente