Gradual typing could help there, doing optimisations where possible. Eric has a PhD student (Oscar) working on gradual typing, with Pharo as the test bed. Next semester there should start a second one with me (Esteban) that is going to look at the vm side of things: if type info is available, use it to optimise ...
So, we are working on it ;-) On 12 Jul 2010, at 15:53, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > - high optimized (I would be curious to know if we could "seal" some > packages and in this case use a lot of inlining -- Johan Fabry [email protected] - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
