Benchmarking Smalltalk on JVM

[Mark Roos]

>From charles

        Ahh, ok, I figured it was something like that. So is your code 
there
        actual code, or is it what you compile the code as when you 
realize
        the value won't escape?

        FWIW, I have done experiments with using enumerators instead of
        integer loops

This is actual code as I am trying to keep to the Smalltalk model of a 
very simple
direct compile.  So I depend on the programmer to indicate the mutable 
integers and
to use appropriate methods.  There are a few places where the compiler 
does create
an enumerator behind the scene where I will automatically generate similar 
code to what
you are.  In this case the integers are not visible so its an easy catch.

I have been toying with 'typed' Smalltalk methods where I could go 
directly to static java but
I have not tried that yet

thanks
mark

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