>From: "Klaus D. Witzel" <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>Subject: Re: Idea for a possibly better Collection occurrencesOf method.
>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:03:22 +0200
>
>Hi J J,
>
>on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:13:00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Changing the VM for local purposes is easy (in Squeak!), would like to  
>have more time for "my daily Squeak VM change". BTW: how cool that sounds,  
>versus "changing the Java / Ruby / Python / put your varorite here / VM,  
>for local purposes is easy" </grin>
>

It is another world to be sure. :)

>But I think this is something for a 1.0 Exupery release; if I understand  
>Bryce correctly he aims to outperform a certain commercial VM and  
>MethodContext>>#apply:from:to: looks like it's worth the effort (of  
>course, with fall back to good old #do: code-in case the new primitive is  
>missing). My CHF 0.05.
>

Exupery is a JIT, no?  JIT is certainly important and very needed, but will
future squeaks use it by default?

If we put in the #apply:from:to: in 3.9 or 3.10 or whatever, then we could
go and clean up all the "rolll your own" count:, etc.'s out there.