[Vm-dev] [Pharo-project] Plan/discussion/communication around new object format

Denis Kudriashov dionisiydk at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 07:11:08 UTC 2012


Hello

2012/6/15 Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>

>
> On 14 June 2012 23:47, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> What i really don't understand is why my opponents readily want to
> >> sacrifice the performance in order to deal with consequences of having
> >> complex systems, when its hard to reason about it,
> >> and at same time completely opposed to proposal of adding features
> >> which will help to reduce complexity in a first place, like adding
> >> slot for having arbitrary properties.
> >
> >
> > You;re putting up a straw man.  You *think* performance of immutability
> is an issue, but my experience tells me it isn't.  I've implemented it
> before.  So please stop raising an invalid objection.
> >
>
> Remember, what i have been told when i implemented a language-side
> scheduling, removing the
> need of VM to even know that is Semaphore?
> I been told *it is slow*. And this was the *only* argument against it,
> why it is found unacceptable.
>

Do you try your scheduling implementation on Cog? Very interesting what
difference in performance
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