[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] Can we make this fast ?

[Eliot Miranda]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:12 PM, phil at highoctane.be <phil at highoctane.be>
wrote:

> See
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625280
>
> [ (1 to: 100000000) sum ] timeToRun
>

> Here we get out of the SmallInteger range...
>
> Apart FFI'ing the thing, do we have other options?
>

We're planning to have a Spur 64-bit system next year.  Sista will inline
the block in sum.  But it's hardly representative.  It's a constant.  If
performance is important, put it in a class variable.  What do you really
want to go fast?
-- 
best,
Eliot
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