From: Peter Suk <peter.kwangjun.suk@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T06:07:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

On Apr 8, 2005, at 2:14 PM, itsme213 wrote:

> "Lothar Scholz" <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote in message
>
>> I would like to add
>>
>> - singleton methods
>>
>> to this list as i think this does not exist in SmallTalk, and this is
>> a feature that could knock out the whole method compilation algorithm.
>
> I doubt it will. Even in Ruby, singleton methods are implemented with
> classes under the covers.

You get the "no-prize"!  Yes, this one is easy.

> The fact that Ruby instance variables appear on demand, and so 
> references to
> instance-vars cannot be directly mapped to integer offsets from a known
> class definition, will likely mean some performance trade-off.

Already covered this.

--Peter

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