[Vm-dev] how slower is called a named primitive over a numbered primitive?

[David T. Lewis]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:33:44PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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> On 23.06.2015, at 18:23, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think this is an inlined apples vs oranges comparison :).  To be that fast surely the JS VM has optimized away the numbered primitive send entirely, leaving only the named primitive send, so this isn't the difference between the two at all.
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> Haha, no. I removed two zeroes from the iteration count ;)

Aha, so this performance optimization stuff is not so hard after all. All
we have to do is get rid of the extraneous zeros and everything just goes
faster.

I never really understood why we needed all those zeros in the first place.
If we just keep getting rid of them, there is no limit to the potential
performance improvements!

Dave