[Vm-dev] [Pharo-project] Plan/discussion/communication around new object format

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 19:49:27 UTC 2012


On 13 June 2012 20:46, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> None of this prevents folks from doing more radical things with it.  But I'm not interested in implementing an experiment, I'm interested in engineering a significantly faster and more scaleable VM. Hence for me, forcing a become to add an identityHash is too experimental and risky.  I know that the elements I've expressed in the design work; they're all ideas that other systems have used, even if lazy become hasn't been used in Smalltalk VMs before (AFAIA).
>
i refined my proposal. see my other mail where i propose to always
have an extra slot right after header.
(you commented a first part of it, but did not commented second)

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.


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