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Pending carbon mac VM universal 3.8.11b3U

johnmci
After many many hours of looking at evil intel code and various  
internet source we discovered that Mac Solo CPUs are quite sensitive  
to instruction alignment issues.

By tweaking the compiler a little, ignoring the obsolete gnu register  
overrides,  plus providing march and tune commands more fitting to  
the Solo this results in a VM that is 20% faster for bytecodes and  
15% faster for Sends than the earlier shipped 3.8.11b2U version.

Beyond that there are also some minor changes:

a) Use PageSize boundary for allocating start of Object memory  heap  
(likely never used).
b) Alter getSystemAttributes: 0 to return the full path to the  
executable, versus the path to the application.

Look for the zip file

Squeak 3.8.11beta3U.app.zip

in the usual places via the link
http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html

  PS we wait for the Intel compiler which has always promised much  
better compiled code, likely it seems this summer.

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