[Vm-dev] Powerful JIT optimization

[Florin Mateoc]

On 11/4/2013 10:53 PM, David Ungar wrote:
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> It was different in Self; we originally had no branch bytecodes. Looping was done with a single _Restart primitive,
> and all control structures were done with blocks. So value methods were always involved. Not so in (Blue Book) Smalltalk.
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So you changed later? Why?

Florin
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