[Vm-beginners] An interesting tidbit for the record

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 14.01.2014, at 00:50, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:

> in CogBytecodeDescriptor a portion of the class comment reads: " The order of my instance variables is chosen for compact struct packing."
> 
> In user-space I have never even considered the order of my instance variables. From that comment, it seems it can matter.

Well, in that context it is only relevant for Slang code, after it has been translated to C.

In regular code, the first 8/16 inst vars are faster to write/read than the higher-numbered ones. Similarly for temps and literals.

- Bert -


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