On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> wrote: > In the scheme we worked out, there's also a small performance penalty for > accessing instance variables within a parcel. In many cases it should be > only one additional indirection per method call (maybe two on ELF systems). > > Overall, I think it's definitely worth it. I don't know of a modern > programming language that requires users to recompile their project and most > dependencies if there's a backward-compatible addition to a base class. ABI > compatibility is a feature that most users simply take for granted.
Nick, if I work on implementing that scheme, would it clash with anything you've got in the hopper? It won't touch much code in clownfish/, but core/ will have a lot of churn. Marvin Humphrey
