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Dec 6, 2014 at 22:44
Optimising and inlining Smalltalk message sends: https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/arithmetic-inlined-and-special-selectors/ -- interesting discussion of JIT weaknesses.
Arithmetic, inlined and special selectors
Arithmetic, inlined and special selectors
Today we are going to discuss how message sends are dispatched in the VM and/or compiled in the image for arithmetics, inlined and special selectors. The “myth” In Pharo, everything is …

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