Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

[Greg Ewing]

"James A. Robertson" wrote:
> 
> MyClass addInstVarName: 'foo'
> 
> MyClass removeInstVarName: 'foo'

Presumably that implies recompiling all of MyClass's
methods, and searching out and updating all of it's
instances -- a much more heavyweight operation than
the Python equivalent.

It's not exactly the same thing, either -- Python
instance variables are added on a per-instance basis,
whereas that is adding one to all instances.

That's not to say the Python way is necessarily
better, just different.

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