On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Benoit St-Jean wrote:
A quick comment...
This whole thing/discussion/war reminds me of the Squeak mailing list, long ago, in its worst days... Let's all take a deep breath for a second and put things in perspective : aren't we just talking about 2 (TWO) methods here? Is this a do-it-now-or-die type of decision? Can't we leave it as is for now and move onto something else ? Yes, Pharo aims at being a super-clean environment but there's enough crap still out there that we can surely delay that one (and think about it a little bit more) and clean something else!
we will let them in. no stress. and we will see if opal will inline them. probably not.
I guess that since I'm not a VM expert here, I'd have to rely on Eliot's suggestion and advice and knowledge. If he says it's a lot of work from a VM-building perspective, he must know what he's talking about. If he says it's a lot of work, he must mean "it's a lot of work". If he says it's *really* useful from a VM-building perspective, he must really "it's useful". He's built enough VMs in the past, he must know what he's talking about.
Let's not allow this to become another "I-know-better-and-more-than-you" type of argument (or ad hominem attack) that flooded the Squeak mailing list a few years ago...
exact because if this is the case I will simply leave the smalltalk community for real and focus on my tiny but extremely fun research.
My 2 cents.
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