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Re: [Help-smalltalk] [PATCH 1/2] kernel: Make >>#new/>>#new: go through


From: Holger Hans Peter Freyther
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] [PATCH 1/2] kernel: Make >>#new/>>#new: go through >>#initialize
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 21:04:53 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 06:48:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Yes, this is why I was reluctant to do this.

I understand but I think portability is more important.


> > I could cheat and add another "cache" for Behavior>>#new or make it
> > another kind of primitive?
> 
> Making it another primitive would lower that cost.  Sounds like a good idea.

Okay, I have one conceptual issue.

a.) VMpr_Behavior_basicNewInitialize will lookup_selector (cache) and
notice that Object>>#initialize is an empty method and we can skip the
call.

b.) >>#initialize is custom with real code but I calling
_gst_send_message_internal will not lead to the code being executed
but we already return from the primitive. What would be nice is to
have a PRIM_SEMI_SUCCEED and just call >>#initialize. This doesn't seem
to be possible right now.

what do you think?

        holger



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