On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m@gmail.com> wrote:

I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Magma 1.3.
The following detail the major improvements to 1.3 over 1.2:

Serializer Upgrade
====
BlockClosures (Contexts and CompiledMethods too, of course), can now
be stored in the database, even with references to inst-vars, self,
temps or globals.

Excellent. I will take a look.

Proxy Transparency
====
A new extension to the WriteBarrier should now alleviate the need to
send #yourself to primitive arguments! Primitives which require
arguments are now overridden in the anonymous subclass so that the
arguments will automatically be ensured to be fully-reified for the
super call.

I would like to take a look to this. In which primitives you need to send #yourself for example? This is because otherwise the VM will fail / crash because it expects the parameters of a primitive to be of a certain type rather than a proxy ?
Which are those subclases you mention that override the primitive methods?

Thanks and congrats for the release.