[Cuis-dev] unnecessary punctuation

[Mark Volkmann]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM Vanessa Freudenberg via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 15:32 Jaromir Matas <mail at jaromir.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> So if I understand correctly the #ifTrue:ifFalse message gets inlined
>> only when used with block arguments, and it gets really sent when used
>> without blocks; which means not only there's one more send but also that
>> **both** 'Yes' and 'No' expressions get evaluated before sending #ifTrue:ifFalse
>> (hence twice as slow?).
>>
>
> In this case evaluating both arguments is pretty cheap because they’re
> simple string constants.
>
> The slowdown comes mainly from actually having to do the sends of
> “ifTrue:ifFalse:” and “value”.
>

Doesn't it seem like the compiler could also be optimized to recognize when
the values passed are literal values and then perform the same optimization
it does for blocks? I understand it doesn't do that currently and so it is
more efficient to pass blocks.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.
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