[Vm-dev] #becomeUncompact not longer works in Cog/Stack VMs

[Colin Putney]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> No. its nothing to do with performance. It is about getting rid of
> them as a concept.

Well, if fixing it makes Cog slower, then it *is* about performance.

Just making everything uncompact without changing the image format
doesn't really buy us much: it would make Cog slower and the image
bigger with no benefit. The benefit comes from having a new image
format that is optimized for speed rather than space - getting rid of
compact classes would just be a side-effect of the new format.

Colin