April 23, 2011
7:37 p.m.
On Apr 21, 2011, at 19:32 , Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 21 April 2011 18:42, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
of course it is there
newArray at: 34 put: Point new.
now could not we have a well initialized point? What is the purpose of this one?
probably there was a primitives which doing fast Point allocaiton, and for this it takes an existing point instance as a prototype. I don't know if this slot are used by something ..
It doesn't seem so. I (quickly) checked the VM sources and couldn't find an access to this array slot... Adrian