SmallInteger as Methods [WAS] Re: Ideas for CompiledMethod proxies?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks Levente. I like this idea. I've been doing proxies for classes,
normal objects, etc and I never thought about using SmallIntegers. This is
because I usually need to do a #become:   between the original object and
the proxy. But in this case this is not needed, since I just need a
methodDict at: put: .  And this is a good idea because I don't need an
object header per proxy instance.

I will try to implement this. Thank you very much for all the answers.

I did a quick implementation and it works. The only problem is that you can't swap-out a method that's used by the swap-in code.

It doesn't work here. It seems I cannot use SmallInteger like methods. The #run:with:in: is never call and the image crashes.

That's simply a bug and we should fix it.  What crashes, the Interpreter, Cog or both?  Prepare a reproducible test case (image, change set etc) and we can try and fix this.

best

Eliot

 

Example (be carefull, it may crash your image):

TestCase methodDict at: #assert: put: 4.
TestCase new assert: 'zaraza'.

I am checking the VM side now to see if I find something.

Cheers

Mariano

 

Levente

Mariano

Levente

Thanks

Mariano