[Vm-dev] Re: [Vm-beginners] About Primitives

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com>wrote:

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> Mariano Martinez Peck wrote
> >
> > yes it receieves! two arguments indeed
> >
> plus self is passed implicitly first, right?
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You see? we start to help us each other :)
yes, the receiver is always put in the stack "implicitly"


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> Mariano Martinez Peck wrote
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> > if you see #initializePrimitiveTable you see the number of this primitive
> > is 249. So if you browse your iamge, you find:
> >
> How did you "browse the image" for the primitive? I ended up searching
> sources for "<primitive: 249>". Is there a better/faster way?
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That's one slow possibily and the hacky and fast one is: CompiledMethod
allInstances select: [:each | each primitive = 249]


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> Mariano Martinez Peck wrote
> >
> > so popping 2 means you will let "self" in the top, so it will actually be
> > the return value.
> > the last time I was hacking in this side of the moon was one year
> ago...so
> > some validation from someone else would be nice :)
> >
> That's what it looked like to me.
>

excellent


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