[squeak-dev] Inline compiler optimizations

Martin Beck martin.beck at hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Wed Oct 8 11:55:19 UTC 2008


Hi,

does anyone already know, what the impact the inline compiler
optimizations like avoiding #ifTrue: or #to:do sends has on the VM
performance? Or, where could I disable then in order to measure it myself?

btw. some methods, especially in the exception handling code, use the
knowledge about this implicit optimizations, for example when they use
thisContext in an #ifTrue: or #whileTrue: block, which does not return
the BlockContext in that cases... :)



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