[Ecls-list] News about CVS & MOP

[Pascal Costanza]

On 20 Mar 2006, at 10:57, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:

> What I have not yet implemented is the standard-accessor-method. I  
> would
> like to understand why this is really needed and how it should work. I
> have read my copy of the AMOP and the specification is rather weak.

My guess is that standard-accessor-method, standard-reader-method and  
standard-writer-method only exist for optimization purposes. Based on  
the class of a method, compute-effective-method, for example, can  
then decide to inline slot access more aggressively because it knows  
what the method bodies of accessor methods look like. Something along  
these lines...


Pascal

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