Recent discussions about generating VM code reminded
me that I did this. Perhaps you'll find it useful.

from preamble:

"Change Set:		CCodeGeneratorSpeedup-nk
Date:			22 March 2001
Author:			Ned Konz

This speeds up the C Code generation by about 8%
as measured by Smalltalk macroBenchmark2

It merely changes some internal lookup tables
into IdentityDictionaries"!
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