On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> 2010/3/20 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>:
>> hasSpecialSelector: ifTrueSetByte:
>> 
>> is heavily used by SystemNavigation but either invoked via Smalltak or self 
>> environment or classEnviroment
>> 
>> I would tend to think that this is something that should be part of 
>> SmalltalkImage but this is not that clear.
>> What do you think?
>> 
> 
> I just don't know. Since it is an information shared by the VM, maybe
> it's better letting it here.

After looking more at the code I think that SmalltalkImage is an ok place. 

> Just for curiousity, I checked how these special selectors where
> shared in Encoder... Huh, not straightforward !

Well this was ok when the machines were that small and slow. Now the complexity 
to avoid just to have ifTrue: in literal 
arrays is not really worth. I would be curious to know the size we gain.


Stef
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