What should be in the next release.

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 09.11.2005 um 11:50 schrieb Tony Garnock-Jones:

> Bryce Kampjes wrote:
>> The big question is whether to work on blocks next.
>
> Yes please! I'm looking forward to throwing away the compiler hacks  
> that
> inline ifTrue:ifFalse: and friends.

Eeek! Why on earth would you want to do that? I'm sure this was not  
what Bryce meant with "working on blocks".

If you have a simple ifTrue: in your code, what else should Exupery  
compile this to than a simple conditional jump? Why replace this with  
a full message send, block activation etc.? And loops would require  
recursion then, which also is a full message send. To be anywhere  
near useful you would at least have to do tail recursion elimination.

Or are you proposing to have Exupery inline blocks? This would  
certainly be possible in precisely the cases where the current  
compiler issues a jump byte code instead of full block, except you do  
it in a much more complicated way without any gain in speed or  
flexibility.

- Bert -