BC rework stuff
Tim Rowledge
tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sun Jun 23 03:18:05 UTC 2002
Hi Anthony,
did you get any luck with that paper of Eliot's? If you have real
trouble, I can probably get you a photocopy somehow.
My best suggestion for progress now is to advise you take a look at
getting your blocks and compiler changes to work with ordinary old
contexts as in v3.2; I think it should be possible but it may be that a
few tiny changes just have to go in. You should find that it simplifies
the changes to the image quite a bit. I suspect that you'll find that
performance is slightly reduced at this point; after all block
evaluation will be a tad more complicated and will involvecreating a
blockcontext instead of just (ab)using things the current way.
Once that is functional, we can consider the best way to improve the
stack mechanism in such a way that it doesn't interfere with a jitter. I
know it can be done, since I have experience of several Smalltalks that
already did it... :-)
Consider it a return to obeying Peter Deutsch's old dictum "You can
cheat, but don't get caught".
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tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
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