On 26 May 2012 22:10, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Milan Mimica wrote:
>
>> On 26 May 2012 20:53, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > What has changed in implementation "class" message in between Pharo 1.3 
>> > and 1.4? Is it compiled inline now or something like that?
>> >
>> > no, the other way around, now #class is NOT bytecoded, and therefore is 
>> > managed as a normal message send.
>> >
>> > That is much better. Thanks! I like progress even if it breaks old code.
>>
>> :)
>> But we always try to minimize else we would go much faster and btw class 
>> should not break older code :)
>>
>> It did break Mocketry (http://www.squeaksource.com/Mocketry)
>> I would also suspect it breaks things like WriteBarrier and Magma and 
>> similar stuff performing magic.
>>
> normally it should do the opposite: as #class is not special, magic is much 
> easier.
>

you have no trust, you're from academia :)

>        Marcus


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Igor Stasenko.

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