12 Jun
2002
12 Jun
'02
3:13 a.m.
...since we have named primitives sorted out these days, maybe we should drop the nonsense of trying to allow thousands of numbered ones.
Yeah! I'd love to get the numbered primitives down to an absolute minimum (zero would be nice :).
While I agree on general principles I'd advise to run a few benchmarks first. The overhead of calling named primitives is not to be underestimated for cases like SmallInteger>>+ or Stream>>next and similar. Also, making all primitives named might have various negative implications for any JIT compilation.
Cheers, - Andreas