I love Marcus idea, classes aren't globals any more, and to access them is simply another �message send to a receiver: the environment.�( like the lobby in Self ) .

Fernando


On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:56 AM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
> The alternative to the current scheme would be to not hard-code the class at all in the method at compile time.
>
> Instead of looking up the class and compiling the shared literal association, we could compile a message send
> to the current environment.
>
> self class environment at: #NameOfClass
>
> And it should be noted that this could be evaluated at Jit-compile time... the same is true for ivar offsets. There
> is no reason why these should be visible at the image level. The image could talk about names and let the runtime
> translator infrastucture do the lookups needed for making a static version that is fast.

Yes I would like to measure that too.
My benchmarks were to measure the worse case where we have to manually update the methods each time the class is modified.