On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Eliot Miranda wrote:
I can't guarantee it. You'd have to measure. All I can say is that we found it better to get rid of the stream primitives in VisualWorks and
in
the Cog JIT. Looking at the Squeak VM code I think the primitives will still win in the interpreter; after all they use the same machinery as
at:
and at:put:. But in a JIT they'll likely loose.
That sounds great.
Since the Cog JIT isn't available yet I'm not really being helpful. I should think before I blurt. Apologies.
No problem, I hope I can measure the difference "real soon now". :)
Levente
Eliot