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Fwd: [Vm-dev] new Cog VMs available

garduino
fyi.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]>
Date: 2013/8/22
Subject: [Vm-dev] new Cog VMs available
To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion <[hidden email]>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <[hidden email]>, Discusses Development of Pharo <[hidden email]>


 
http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2776/

CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.333/r2776

* Speed-up Newspeak significantly (e.g. -28% in one compile-intensive benchmark)
by maintaining unpaired methods (compilations of anonymous accessors) on a
linked list instead of searching the entire method zone.

* Make primitiveObjectAtPut fail if changing the header word and the
new header has a different literal count.  Avoids crashing the VM
when inadvertently changing the header, as a Newspeak bootstrap
did recently.

* Implement frameless inst var store from arguments, so e.g.
Point>>setX:Y: is frameless.

* Add Cogit support for clean blocks by scanning literals looking for
BlockClosures on the current method.
-- 
best,
Eliot




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