21 Jun
2005
21 Jun
'05
4:29 p.m.
Hello,
I know there are some Self experts in this mailing list, that's why I am asking a question related to it there. What would be the best strategy to have variables not accessed by using their index, but rather by sending messages correspondong to their accessors/mutators.
I feel that an efficient implementation would require new bytecode, therefore hardcoding this in the VM.
Markus Denker has an implementation that use an object-as-compiled trick to delay the recompilation of a method, but the assumption was not to modify the VM.
Anyone can confirm or infirm what I wrote ?
Cheers, Alexandre
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Alexandre Bergel http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~bergel
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