[squeak-dev] Re: MessageTally problems

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Apr 23 19:22:14 UTC 2010


On 4/23/2010 11:59 AM, Brent Pinkney wrote:
> Hi,
>> Performance. It somewhat slowed primitive dispatch since a timer check had to be done for each primitive.
>
> I would really like to help Chris out on this.
>
> I have downloaded http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/release/Squeak-3.6-0.src.tar.gz and am comparing interp.c against that in 3.10-4.
>
> Could you be able to point me to the code that has been removed and any advise on whether I can patch 3.10-4 to build Chris a VM
> so that he can profile?

Look at primitiveResponse. You need to make sure that

	ioMSecs() > nextWakeupTick ifTrue:[self checkForInterrupts].

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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