2016-01-16 10:11 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>: > > anyone an idea? > > I'm trying to think. > Looks like it would be good to be able to make a distinction between > symbols and selectors (selectors installed > in method dictionaries) > > > yes, this would improve code completion a bit, too, as there are more > symbols than symbols that are actually names > of methods. > > The data could be created per environment (Smalltalk globals) the first > time and then cached till shutdown. > (it would be an array of size 46451, pointing to existing symbols). > > The environment could cache sent selectors, too… pablo did an experiment > with that. > > Marcus > > How about a new SymbolTable "SelectorTable" that gets new entries on every method compilation ?
I hacked a simple experimental version. But I don't yet understand the workflow for initialisation of the Symbol class (with rehash, interned, and compacting).
