I would not have thought I ever say that: lets have a new primitve (was: Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: System-cwp.660.mcz)

Mon Jan 13 20:56:04 UTC 2014

Hi Tobias:

On 12 Jan 2014, at 18:47, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

>  I really don’t like to say it, but it seems to me, that a 
> VM primitive (say #primAllObjectsDo:) would be apt here.
> • is more easy implemented by cousin VMs (say, Potato, SqueakJS, 
>  SPy/RSqueakVM, SqueakMaxine† 

How do you implement that efficiently in RPython, or Java?
Keeping some kind of object table around?

Best regards
Stefan

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