self send inliner (was: [Enh][VM] primitiveApplyToFromTo for the
heart of theenumeration of collections?)
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel at merlintec.com
Mon Sep 18 19:48:00 UTC 2006
Avi Bryant wrote:
> Has anyone ever played with a simple self-sends inliner? No de-
> inlining when debugging, no post-inlining optimization, no attempt to
> deal with polymorphism, just inlining monomorphic self-sends...
Due to inheritance you do have to deal with polymorphism before you can
inline self sends. Unless you want to add Java silliness like "final".
One curious detail - I never implement "super" in my VMs but instead
handle it by inlining the code. No need to worry about polymorphism in
that case...
-- Jecel
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