[Vm-dev] Finally Time to Make Good on "Everything is a message send"?

Mon Sep 18 16:07:05 UTC 2017

Denis Kudriashov wrote
> Hi
> 
> 
>> We don't want to give up that performance, but we would like to not get
>> caught cheating either. This would be very simple if instead of raising
>> the
>> "must be boolean" error, we could simply retry the send as a regular
>> message send.
> 
> 
> This is already in Pharo :)

And it's cool and all, but neither trivial*, nor especially fast:

a := MyBooleanObject new.
[a or: [true]] bench '2,829 per second'
[false or: [true]] bench '188,853,858 per second'

Cheers,
Henry

*Ref threads like
http://forum.world.st/Re-Pharo-dev-mustBeBooleanMagicIn-can-crash-the-vm-td4772716.html#a4772724
http://forum.world.st/Re-Pharo-dev-eventual-crashes-pharo-vm-tp4961763.html

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