This is supercool that you propose a working solution.
I'm going over the Mooc exercises (text version first to get redy to shoot the videos).

Stef

Le 16/1/16 13:26, Nicolai Hess a ��crit��:


2016-01-16 10:11 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>:

anyone an idea?

I'm trying to think.
Looks like it would be good to be able to make a distinction between symbols and selectors (selectors installed
in method dictionaries)
yes, this would improve code completion a bit, too, as there are more symbols than symbols that are actually names
of methods.

The data could be created per environment (Smalltalk globals) the first time and then cached till shutdown.
(it would be an array of size 46451, pointing to existing symbols).

The environment could cache sent selectors, too��� pablo did an experiment with that.

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How about a new SymbolTable "SelectorTable" that gets new entries on every method compilation ?

I hacked a simple experimental version.
But I don't yet understand the workflow for initialisation of the Symbol class (with rehash, interned, and compacting).


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