[Vm-dev] Questions related to immutability in Cog

[Tudor Girba]

Hi,
> On Nov 11, 2015, at 11:31 AM, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11 Nov 2015, at 11:03, Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for your answers.
>> 
>> The implementation implies:
>> - adding support for the callback attemptToWrite: aValue atIndex: index which is partially done 
>> - checking for immutability at each write (at:put:, bytecoded inst var access, instVarAt:put:, become: , ... ). both in the interpreter and jitted code
>> - I guess adding 2 primitives to mark the object as immutable and mark it back as mutable.
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>> I believe it's not a lot of work. If no one has done that before May (a phd student was interested at some point, he may do it) I could try to supervise an intern on this task. When he finishes the implementation he could work in actually using the immutability in the image.
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> yes clement this would be good to see if seb can do it. 

The way I see it, this would be a significant contribution.

Cheers,
Doru


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