Re: [Squeak-VMdev] DING! End of Round One

[Cees de G. <cg...@cd...>]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:32, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> One possible optimization would be to allow immutability only for old 
> objects - when assigning into old objects, we need additional code anyway.
>
I don't know enough about the VM to know why this makes a difference,
but one datapoint: you typically make objects immutable directly after
instantiation (e.g. reading from the datastore). Forcing them to
oldspace might have some negative performance effects.