Efficiency of dropArguments

[Mark Roos]

I am looking closely at the test portion of my guard with test method 
handle.
On entry my call stack has zero or more arguments plus the object I wish 
to 
test on top.  Currently I drop all of the arguments ( leaving the test 
object ),
bind the value to compare (reference) with and then attach the method 
which extracts
a field from the test object and identity compares it to the bound value.

Two questions from a low level performance perspective
Would it help much if I specialize the test method for the number of 
arguments
thus getting rid of the dropArguments?  Especially since I am keeping the 
TOS.

Does it matter which end I bind the reference value to?  ( TOS vs bottom)

thanks
mark
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