[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] About ~= and ~~

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > OK, in the end I decided on primitive number 169. It doesn't waste the
> > 150-159 range and is in amongst primitiveAdoptInstance and
> > primitiveSetIdentityHash.  David, would you like to integrate this into
> the
> > main branch?
>
> If dynamic frequency is low, why does it need to be a primitive?
>

People avoid it because of performance.  But I much prefer foo ~~ bar
ifTrue: than foo == bar ifFalse:.  So I suspect/hope dynamic frequency will
grow as people find its not such a performance issue any more.


> Colin
>



-- 
best,
Eliot
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