that would actually be interesting on how much you win by doing so, and if you could run this dynamically (for instance reintroduce the #class optimization if you never override it in the image)...
On 2013-09-03, at 19:07, Nicolas Cellier <[email protected]> wrote: > I note that #class was removed from specialSelectors (nilled entry) so as > to not use the VM hack which fetches the class without sending a message. > Pharo prefers the regular message send. > But next to that entry, there is #blockCopy: which was formerly used for > blue book BlockContext. > BlockContext was removed from Pharo... > So that makes two available slots for optimizing most used (sent) > messages... > We might choose some candidates and test on some macro benchmark if ever > that really makes a difference.
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