> 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.

I would love that because it it would be a really cool step into late binding 
structure vs. behavior. (of course at the cost of weakening encapsulation but 
still). I like the design of newspeak from that perspective. 

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


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