Il 26/07/2014 18:20, Holger Hans Peter Freyther ha scritto:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 02:18:12PM +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> 
>> Would now call initialize twice. I will squash the two patches and
>> write a "NEWS" items.
> 
> I have a macro-benchmark of [] vs. [Object new] vs. [Object basicNew]
> and we pay a lot for the extra message send. This is besides the code
> in _gst_send_message_internal already checking for the "self" routine.

Yes, this is why I was reluctant to do this.

> I could cheat and add another "cache" for Behavior>>#new or make it
> another kind of primitive?

Making it another primitive would lower that cost.  Sounds like a good idea.

Paolo

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