[Vm-dev] frameless instance initialization

[stephane ducasse]

Hi eliot


> Hi All,
> 
>     here's a challenge.  Currently the JIT is naive about a sequence of inst var assignments.  It treats assignment separately, each getting its own copy of the store check.  For example when initializing an Interval via:
> 
> setFrom: startInteger to: stopInteger by: stepInteger
> 
> 	start := startInteger.
> 	stop := stopInteger.
> 	step := stepInteger 


Is this pattern frequent?
Because it was proposed by K. Beck but do people use it?
Especially now with automatic invocation of initialize, we often have 
	
	start := startInteger.
>      stop := stopInteger.
>      step := stepInteger 
	self do.