>  >          addl $4,%edi
>>           movl fum+80,%eax
>>           movl 4(%eax),%eax
>>           movl %eax,(%edi)
>
>The only difference to the current code is that rather than using
>"fum+80" it's using _receiver explicitly. No big difference (although I
>would expect the immediate global access to be faster).

Well that gets into what happens when you bench the VM.

The real way to find out is to build a new interp.c, or I'll send you 
one with global structures on?



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