Squeak-dev Digest, Vol 22, Issue 20
Andres Valloud
sqrmax at cox.net
Sat Oct 16 23:53:31 UTC 2004
Hello Avi,
Saturday, October 16, 2004, 2:33:30 PM, you wrote:
>> My 2 cents: since we'd do that to get performance, and 90% of the time
>> is spent on less than 10% of the code, we should only see the optional
>> type tags in less than 10% of the code - otherwise it has no value.
AB> Why for performance? One of the cool things about animorphic was that
AB> the type annotations were completely ignored by the JIT, even though
AB> they were available. The runtime info, I assume, was better.
I thought the whole point of animorphic was speed. But maybe the
optional type tags have extra value that I don't see now.
Andres.
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