Real closures
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Oct 7 23:03:01 UTC 2006
Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:35:19 +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Not sure about this. There are issues with our current contexts, BIG
>> issues. So big that I'd very seriously consider accepting a slowdown
>> in exchange to fixing these problems.
>
> :) Mathieu: hurry up, potential users are waiting for sensible
> performance comparisions :) Are there already benchmarks available for
> exhibiting the slowdown experienced with instance variables accessed
> from BlockClosures?
I actually did a serious evaluation of the new compiler for the last
Croquet release. It failed the tests, primarily on the issue of error
messages. A compiler whose only complaint is "Token not expected" is
simply unusable no matter what else might be great about it.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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