Re: Smalltalk and tiered compile data

2012-02-08 Thread Mark Roos
Hi Rémi I think I am starting to get it. My normal fallback creates a GWT and does a getTarget + setTarget on the root callsite to put this GWT at the head of the chain. I assume that this use of setTarget is as expected and causes no problems. I think I found this technique in some of your e

Re: Smalltalk and tiered compile data

2012-02-08 Thread Rémi Forax
On 02/08/2012 02:55 AM, Mark Roos wrote: > Hi Rémi > > Just a clarification on the switchpoint usage to invalidate sites. > > The switch path would still do a setTarget correct? No, SwitchPoint.invalidateAll() doesn't call setTarget(). > So I am still sending lots of > setTargets just based on sw