Ok,

so are there any VM primitive writers out there who would be interested in 
tackling this?  I'm afraid that this sort of thing is beyond me at the 
moment. :)  It seems like something that could make a big positive impact.


>From: tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Idea for a possibly better Collection occurrencesOf method.
>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:45:13 -0700
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>>Of course, what'd also be needed is a commitment from the VM folks  to 
>>include the new primitive.
>>
>>/Klaus
>
>Oh, if anyone comes up with a suitable primitive that
>a) works
>b) fails sensibly
>c) actually does improve real performance in sensible benchmarks
>then I think I  can guarantee inclusion.
>
>tim
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