Thank you for your statements and suggestions Bryce.

/Klaus

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:07:12 +0200, Bryce Kampjes wrote:
> Klaus D. Witzel writes:
>
>  > 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.
>
> The right way to optimise occurrencesOf: is to write it using count:
> then to inline away the overhead of using #do: by using an inlining
> JIT as Nicolas suggested. My aim is to add inlining to Exupery in 2.0.
>
> The goal of 1.0 is to provide a useful speed improvement to
> Squeak. That involves making Exupery more reliable and implementing
> key primitives. Unfortunately, many inner loops in Squeak spend most
> of their time calling primitives so improve their performance I need
> to reimplement the primitives. Exupery has been faster than
> VisualWorks for the bytecode benchmark for over a year now.
>
> I could have also said that the goal for Exupery 1.0 is to provide
> everything necessary to benefit from method lining except for method
> inlining. Exupery can inline primitives already.
>
> Bryce
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