I can supply a built VM if anyone wants to try it immediately. If not I'll package one up after finishing tidying up.
Looking at the bytecodes, they're suppressing context recycling whenever a closure is created. The only reason that closures refer to their surrounding contexts is to support ^ returns from blocks. With two more context creation bytecodes we should allow all contexts to be recycled except the outer method context when there's a block that ^ returns. Such optimisation can wait though, especially as it would involve removing some of Eliot's sanity checking which may be useful when adapting the image to use these bytecodes. Bryce _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
