From: Anders Bengtsson Date: 2002-11-19T10:25:40+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyConf 2002 Slides for FreeRIDE Presentation tom wrote: > I wonder if one could take advantage of Unit tests to provide some runtime > information about what references correspond to what classes. If your > coverage is fairly complete it may be possible to get a pretty good idea > about what types things end up as - at least sufficient enough the tests. > Which would be good enough for me. This information can also be used to improve the speed of method lookup. There is a lot written about this, from research in the Self programming language. They implemented a very quick just-in-time compiler based on this. /Anders -- A n d e r s B e n g t s s o n | ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se Stockholm, Sweden | _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet p� www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt!