Bob Arning  <arning at charm.net> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> You could change your compiler to emit normal message send bytecodes for any of these and then you would get the ability to change the implementation in squeak, at the expense of things being slower and taking more memory
There is a 'fix' for this to be considered for VI4. It just changes the
special bytecode to do a normal send of #class. No evaluation of any
performance change has yet been done.

tim

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