Re: [Squeak-VMdev] Versiojn 4 changes

[Andreas R. <and...@gm...>]

> While it probably won't impact speed on a decent implementation of the
> CPU (the additional branch will be predicted correctly) it won't
> increase speed either (you haven't reduced the overall number of data
> hazards the pipeline has to deal with).

Which reminds of something else we were talking about in the past: Passing
primitive arguments as C arguments instead of the Smalltalk stack. I
remember that you said that this would be advantageous for various reasons
and since it requires changing the plugins and a lot of other stuff, V4
might be a chance to give this "more serious thoughts".

Cheers,
  - Andreas