Category:Smalltalk: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
| Line 162: | Line 162: | ||
As message send performance is critical in Smalltalk, highly tuned cache mechanisms have been invented and are used: inline caches, polymorph inline caches, dynamic recompilation based on receiver and/or argument types etc. |
As message send performance is critical in Smalltalk, highly tuned cache mechanisms have been invented and are used: inline caches, polymorph inline caches, dynamic recompilation based on receiver and/or argument types etc. |
||
Also block creation and evaluation, especially the treatment of closed over variables has been in the focus of implementors. Algorithms similar to those found in sophisticated Lisp systems are also used in Smalltalk. |
Also block creation and evaluation, especially the treatment of closed over variables has been in the focus of implementors. Algorithms similar to those found in sophisticated Lisp systems such as lambda lifting, inlining, stack allocation and heap migration etc. are also used in Smalltalk. |
||
== Influences == |
== Influences == |
||