Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 4, 2003, at 4:04 AM, ducasse wrote:
> >
> > I did that beofre discovering Squeak. In squeak you can change the 
> > compiler to send the class message.
> > this is changeClass and a real valueWith that was missing at that time.
> 
> It seems to me there was a thread a bit ago about changing this so that 
> #class actually gets sent.
Yeah, I did a teensy hack for that a while back.

> Is there any reason not to do this?   What was the original rationale
> behind inlining it?  Can we change it in 3.7?
I think it was really one of those performance enhancing things done
decades ago when machines were slow and never really looked at again.

tim
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