Ramblings on how to optimize Squeak for modern CPU bit manipulation (Was Re: I was wondering ...

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Wed Jun 23 18:44:48 UTC 1999


[About adding cutting-edge bit-flipping to Squeak]

The general direction is to make the best of the best that is generally 
portable.

Nobody'd stop you from implementing anything for your favorite platform (and 
it'd make a bunch of XYZ-platform-users happy) but it probably won't go 
main-squeak-stream.

On the other hand, if you can significantly improve what's there, in a LCD 
(maybe GCD is more appropriate ;-) manner, we'd all be very happy.

Daniel





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