On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Clément Bera <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also can't wait to have a slot to automatically add instance variables > in the additional method state for CompiledMethod subclasses. This > shouldn't be tricky for you any more, should it ? I'm bored of not being > able to add instance variables to compiledMethod subclasses :-). > +1. This is a great test case for Slots. Having automatically inst vars in a dictionary is interesting it could > allow to have more inst vars than the maximum limit. > or, as in AI frame languages, avoid representing and initializing infrequently-used inst vars > > 2015-02-05 16:51 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Next: Hidden ivar >>> >>> >>> >> This is now finally in #478. This is for notch just a subclass to have a >> normal InstanceVariable in a hidden version, >> later we will use the wrapping machism that we use already for MetaLinks >> to make it possible to hide any slot. >> (e.g. BooleanSlot will use a BitFieldSlot that might span multiple ivars). >> >> For the first version this simple version should be enough. >> >> Marcus >> > -- best, Eliot
