Setting break points

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Nov 17 21:34:16 UTC 2003


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> Not entirely - MethodWrappers is an extra package with some pretty 
> ugly code, ObjectsAsMethods seems to Just Work now that VM support is 
> there.  Also, ObjectsAsMethods has surprisingly little overhead - I 
> measure about 30-40% slower than a normal CompiledMethod, whereas I 
> remember MethodWrappers having much more than that.

This is strange because when I benchmarckd in 99 MethodWrappers they 
were the best in term of speed compared to all kinds of other tricks
I used (anonymous behavior)...in VW.

I never noticed that the code was that bad. Normally john writes quite 
good code.


> BTW, the counterpart I wanted was CompiledMethod>>run:with:in: ... 
> IIRC there was some prim introduced for the BC Compiler that would 
> make that easy?
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