On Apr 21, 2011, at 19:32 , Igor Stasenko wrote: > On 21 April 2011 18:42, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> of course it is there >> >> newArray at: 34 put: Point new. >> >> now could not we have a well initialized point? >> What is the purpose of this one? >> > > probably there was a primitives which doing fast Point allocaiton, and > for this it takes an existing point instance as a prototype. > I don't know if this slot are used by something ..
It doesn't seem so. I (quickly) checked the VM sources and couldn't find an access to this array slot... Adrian
