Re: [Cardinal-dev] RubyInRuby parser/compiler

[Erik Bågfors]

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:46, Anders Bengtsson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I think it may be hard to avoid doing at least a partial method lookup.
> The method '+' can't be overridden on the individual object level for
> Fixnums, so the lookup can be done directly at the class level, as Erik
> says. But at the class level the method can be changed at any time, so
> some kind of lookup has do be done.
> 

Agreed.

> What are the plans for Fixnum in Cardinal, will it first be done as
> plain non-optimized objects, or is there already work being done on a
> "native" integer implementation?

There aren't many "plans" for cardinal at all yet, except for individual
peoples plans.

I believe we should start by doing the "slow but 100% compatible"-way
and then optimize after that.

/Erik

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