python on the smalltalk VM
Steve Purcell
stephen_purcell at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 19 14:27:49 EDT 2001
Dave LeBlanc wrote:
> At one time I was really interested in Self and downloaded the whole
> 25mb+ source tree.
>
> To the best of my recollection, they claimed closer to 80% of compiled
> code speed. One of the ways they accomplished this was to use native
> machine code in lieu of a VM's bytecodes coupled with subroutine calls
> for things that were too complex to inline.
>
> The project ended up at Sun, where I think it ended when Sun decided
> not to persue any commercialization. I wonder if all that stuff is
> still lurking on Sun's site somewhere...
References to that technology are made in a white paper about the Hotspot
"Performance Engine" for Java:
http://java.sun.com/products/hotspot/whitepaper.html
-Steve
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