Feb. 16, 2011
5:15 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Eliot a final question. So how will you handle OPAL compiler change in Cog? Do you require that marcus and jorge have to deal with decompiler of caseOf: in addition to all the rest? Is it a strong requirement? Because then this is clear that Opal will be delayed. But may be it is not that important after all. Just curious.
OPAL is a Smalltalk compiler. I can therefore assume that it will compile Smalltalk. caseOf: is valid Smalltalk and so will be compiled by OPAL. Whether Marcus chooses to optimise caseOf: or not is up to him.
Stef (if you think that I focus on details then I'm certainly an idiot).