Hi

I do not want that this email is taken in the wrong way. So be positive 
when reading it. I will try not to fall on the keyboard (TM Andreas) 
this time.

I was just asking myself the following question:

- Anthony mentioned that with his optimisations with full blockclosures 
were getting 30% speed to squeak and ***true block closure***.
- Allen Wirfs-brock mentioned that the techniques used were used all 
over the places by other Smalltalk.
- I had the impression that still what anthony was doing was a problem 
for the VM guys (I may be wrong)

I would like to understand if
	(1) what he did is good,
	(2) what are the problems to introduce them in Squeak (for example 
with the optimizations is seaside continuation passing style still 
working),
	(3) what would we lose,
	(4) what is the path to go with that?

So tell me

Stef



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