On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> Ideally I would love to be able to use accessors as the abstraction layer
> that they can bring us:
> I mean the fact that we could avoid to have offset based bytecode means
> that we could reuse a lot more
> the methods (in special case - mixins and others).
>
> Now I have a question does the JIT or the shortcut (not sure if this is in
> stackVM) blurry the cost of accessors
> vs. direct accesses?
>

Not yet.  But IMO it would be straight-forward to add.  The PIC design
supports inserting extra code at a send site, which is the logical place to
put the access code.


>
> Does anybody run a benchmarck about
>        self x vs x in Cog recently
> on a real app?
>
> Stef
>

best
Eliot

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