On Sep 24, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Alejandro Pulver <alepul...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the idea, I'll try emulating shotgun sequencing by increasing the 
> sampling rate for short periods of time.
> 
> But a better alternative would be to enable and disable the simulator 
> (context's runSimulated) for exact sequences (even if shorter, to avoid 
> slowdowns). Is it possible with the current implementation?
> 
The problem is that runSimulated is *very* slow as it interpretes bytecode 
using an interpreter written in Smalltalk. 

Maybe an idea would be to use some sampling that uses VM Support… I don't know 
much about it, though. See MessageTally and AndreasSystemProfiler.

> It's not that I don't appreciate the ideas for the new reflection framework. 
> but I'm looking for something to use for this project. And we have only a few 
> weeks. Actually, the most important part is not the system integration but 
> analyzing the structure of those message sequences (like word analysis in 
> natural language processing).
> 
Yes, I understand. We are working hard to improve the system… but it's a lot of 
work.

        Marcus

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