BC rework stuff

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Jun 23 11:17:04 UTC 2002


Hi Tim

I think that your advice is **really** important if we want to have the 
change in BC to be included into
the main release.....So Anthony go.
I really dream to have full BC in Squeak.

Stef

On dimanche, juin 23, 2002, at 05:18  AM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> 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".
>>
>
> tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
>
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes




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