>>> I don't care. I have it working for my "usage". This was just an example.
>>>
>>> And don't compare #class with all the boolean methods like #ifNil: and
>>> friends or the bytecodes for integer operations....I think #class is
>> sent
>>> far less times than those...
>>>
>>
>> Yes. and i predict that performance impact in macro benchmarks, where
>> you running normal code
>> (which not sending this message intentionally in a loop) will be at
>> the noise level magnitude.
>>
>
> So...what about doing something more real...for example, run all the
> testcases and compare time.
> Wouldn't that be a good "benchmark" ?
sounds already better. make sure to run it something like 100 times, get the
average and the standard deviation. otherwise the results don't provide much
information.
> BTW, can I run all test from code? (not using the TestRunner UI)
something like the following code should do it.
TestCase allSubclasses do: [ :cls|
cls isAbstract
ifFalse: [cls run]].
