Primitives, Pragmas, Literals and their relation to CompiledMethods
June 3, 2011
What is a primitive? Do you want to know the answer? Just do what we always do in Smalltalk: browse code 🙂 Open your image and browse the method #whatIsAPrimitive. You can read the following information there: “Some messages in the system are responded to primitively. A primitive response is performed directly by the interpreter … More Primitives, Pragmas, Literals and their relation to CompiledMethods