You have also MethodWrappers from john Brant (I know somebody ported 
them to squeak).
You can also read my Joop paper: message passing Control in Smalltalk 
available on my webpage.





On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 03:41 PM, John W. Sarkela wrote:

> Sure, though the major caveat is that observation changes things.
> The easiest was would be to intercept the message send itself
> with a method wrapper. As long as the observation mechanism
> doesn't get introspective, Heisenbubbles won't be a problem.
> Further, the overhead of the wrapper/intercept mechanism is
> deterministic and can be calibrated out of the statistics.
>
> David Caster implemented such an intercept mechanism for
> a basic instrumentation framework, I'll see if I can get him to
> package this up for Squeak map. Basically, you attach probes
> to a set of methods (specified by class and selector). These
> probes are attached to an instrument that can capture receiver
> and args on the way into the method and return value upon
> exit, and do with them what they will. The basic advantages
> to this approach is that the code under test has no textual
> changes to support observation, nor is the method recompiled.
> Further, the implementation has a low overhead that may be calibrated.
>
> I suspect that you would be very interested to read the papers
> that Urs Hölze wrote on adaptive optimization based
> on his hotspot compiler work, first for Self and subsequently
> for Smalltalk and Java.
>
> :-}> John Sarkela
>
>
> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 07:59 PM, Doug Clapp wrote:
>
>> Given that Squeak is "reflective," would it be possible
>> to write code such that...
>>
>> -- the system was "watched" as it was exercised, and...
>>
>> -- attention was paid to which "cases"  (ifTrue/ifFalse)
>> were triggered more often, and...
>>
>> -- the methods were then re-written to have the "most
>> likely (often)"if" be placed first in the method, to speed
>> up the execution of "most often done things"?
>>
>> Obviously, this idea could be taken much further...
>>
>> doug clapp
>>
>
>
>
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