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Easier to debug.

nikodemus

Linker issue might be easiest deal with using lld-link?

nikodemus

Cannot use #== in self_test.foo, need to use #isEquivalent: instead. See eg. test_target_record.foo.

nikodemus

faster calling convention

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- [ ] Methods set up their own contexts, and receive the arguments as C-arguments. - [ ] Methods which only send a single message don't need to allocate a...

nikodemus

Trivial inlining is inhibited too often.

nikodemus

While optimized code can very well have fat method tables, right now for simplicity's sake that should not be the case. As long as methods tables are fat it will...

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nikodemus

FFI / shared object interface

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FFI code is always accessed through the System object. `foo --extension=foo/ext/network` loads `foo/ext/network.foo`, initializes it by `Extension load: system`, and makes it available as `system network`. Sketch: ``` -- TimeVal...

nikodemus

Builtins get receiver and/or argument closures marked as stack-safe.

nikodemus

parser loses \n vs literal newline distinction in strings

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Making SyntaxPrinter lose them as well.

nikodemus