Warp wrote:

>   Could a simple conditional be more awkward than that?

Sure! I can think of ways to make it much more complicated. ;-)

>   (I can only imagine how hard it is for compilers to optimize that into a
> regular machine code conditional construct.)

At a simple level, you could just scan the source when you compile it, 
and replace any calls to the #ifTrue:ifFlase: method (and friends) with 
the appropriate machine instructions.

Then again, Smalltalk is an interpretted language. Speed is quite 
clearly *not* its main objective.

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