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by erik_seaberg 1427 days ago
I think they’re saying ifTrue: is an intrinsic in their transpiler, so the method call is skipped and replaced with a C statement. They could have chosen instead to generate C code that actually invokes a method on a receiver (using whatever their calling convention is for methods), which would be slower but monkey-patching would work as usual.