[squeak-dev] Time primitives

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 07:47:25 UTC 2015


Tim,

    that fix is fine as far as it goes.  I'm talking about the Cogit's assumption that named primitives may call back imply that there is overhead in jitted code.  You remember the sideways call that's necessary?  I want the numbered prim for that. 

Eliot (phone)

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:30 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 07-04-2015, at 6:21 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   named primitives have overhead that numbered ones don't.  
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> I *thought* I’d fixed that back around ’04 by caching the actual address ? Always possible I didn’t get it right, of course. I do seem to remember some pretty good performance improvements as a result of the changes.
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