[Vm-beginners] Re: Fwd: Oops - I put a halt in a startup method

Sean P. DeNigris sean at clipperadams.com
Wed Dec 28 12:54:31 UTC 2011


Mariano Martinez Peck wrote
> 
> You are lucky that since your problem is in the startup list, then the
> CompiledMethod was not yet converted to machine code. Because if it was,
> then the method execution does NOT go by #commonSend: but rather from a
> different place.

Eliot suggested in
http://forum.world.st/Weird-problem-when-adding-a-method-to-StackInterpreter-tp4223429p4237801.html
:

Eliot Miranda-2 wrote
> 
> But given that the stack vm and the cog vm are semantically equivalent do
> you even need to add tracing code to the jit?... why not just use the
> stack vm...?
> 

Would using the StackVM catch all sends?

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