[Cuis] Fwd: [Vm-dev] new Cog VMs available

[Germán Arduino]

fyi.

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From: Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
Date: 2013/8/22
Subject: [Vm-dev] new Cog VMs available
To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion <
vm-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>, The general-purpose Squeak developers
list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>, Discusses Development of
Pharo <pharo-dev at lists.pharo.org>



http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2776/

CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.333/r2776

* Speed-up Newspeak significantly (e.g. -28% in one compile-intensive
benchmark)
by maintaining unpaired methods (compilations of anonymous accessors) on a
linked list instead of searching the entire method zone.

* Make primitiveObjectAtPut fail if changing the header word and the
new header has a different literal count.  Avoids crashing the VM
when inadvertently changing the header, as a Newspeak bootstrap
did recently.

* Implement frameless inst var store from arguments, so e.g.
Point>>setX:Y: is frameless.

* Add Cogit support for clean blocks by scanning literals looking for
BlockClosures on the current method.
-- 
best,
Eliot




-- 
Saludos / Regards,
Germán Arduino
www.arduinosoftware.com
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