[ANN] New Version of VI4 (block closures)
Tim Rowledge
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Wed Oct 23 16:54:15 UTC 2002
"Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at mucow.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> Can anyone account for this remarkable increase in speed?
Yup. Better send/return performance due to having a linearized stack. No
copying of arguments. Eliot showed how dramatic the effect of
this can be in BrouHaHa way back in 87. PS & HPS do even
better.
Personally I feel there are some more improvements needing to be
completed before adopting this new code but it is very promising.
Anthony has done a very good job and we owe him a big round of beer
(or other appropriate drug of choice).
tim
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