On 13.04.2011 19:40, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > JSR 292 explicitly talks about become: (calls it hotswap) and is supposed > to make it possible to run Smalltalk efficiently on a jvm.
What I know as hotswap as hot swap would not help with #become:. My understanding is that when "they" went from an object table to direct pointers for memory access speed that made it more complicated to implement #become: and certainly slower. Cheers Philippe
