From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-23T23:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance on method dispatch for methods defined via define_method

Paul Brannan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:24:43PM +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> Not at the moment, and it's an entertaining way to break JRuby for fun 
>> and profit. I could add in the check for eval being aliased, and display 
>> a warning and deoptimize everything, but I currently do not because I've 
>> been waiting to see if any libraries break. So far, nobody does this.
> 
> Maybe it should be vocal, even if you don't deoptimize:
> 
>   test.rb:42: warning: aliasing eval?  you evil, evil person.
> 
> If it's not vocal, one might not notice right away that something broke.

Probably a good idea. I'll file a bug.

- Charlie