Benchmarking Smalltalk on JVM

[Mark Roos]

>From Rémi
        Anyway, you can optimize the last instructions, <= should return a 
boolean
        so the sequence should be:

        ldc 41000000
        aload 1
        indy <= (ILObject;)Z
        if_eq LABEL 1

I am not sure how to handle this in a Smalltalk envrionment.  All of the 
objects are instances of the same
java type so <= is a method which returns an RtObject which is the 
singular instance of true.  I have to
compare that return to 'true' to get what the if bytecode wants.

<= could have been a block making type inference more interesting.

thanks for the thoughts

mark
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