Musing out loud... [Why not Smalltalk?]

[Eric Langjahr]

I'm not sure you info on 'hotspot' is totally correct.  If I recall
there was another company working on this vm called Anamorphic, I
think.
 
At any rate I think the initial plans were for this vm technology to
be used in smalltalk implementations.

Sun bought the company and the technology was morphed to be used in
the java vm.


On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 10:58:29 +0200, Reinout Heeck <reinz at Desk.org>
wrote:

>Keith Ray wrote:
>> 
>[...]
>> 
>> This is very interesting. I'm really interested in a 'unified' OO
>> runtime for Objective C, Smalltalk, Java, and Python.
>> 
>> Since Apple Objective C runtime is now open source (in Darwin) and
>> Apple's Objective-C to Java bridge is open source (also in Darwin), and
>> Squeak is open source, and Python is open source (and Jython -- Python
>> implemented in Java), I certainly would like to see an open-source
>> unification happen on MacOS X and other platforms (including MacOS 9 if
>> something could be done in the short term.)
>
>
>An experiment has been conducted to implement Smalltalk and Java on top
>of the Self development environment/VM.
>
>
>See:
>'Towards a Universal Implementation Substrate for Object-Oriented
>Languages'
>
>  http://www.sun.com/research/kanban/oopsla-vm-wkshp.pdf
>
>
>Pulling Python and Objective-C into this equation shouldn't be too hard.
>
>Porting Self to other platforms is a major undertaking though. (But I've
>seen remarks that a port to Linux-on-Intel is under way).
>
>
>more stuff on Self at Sun
>  http://self.sunlabs.com
>and at MerlinTec
>  http://www.merlintec.com/e_technology.html
>
>
>Javaites probably know that the Self VM project was where Sun's
>'hotspot' technology was developed.
>
>
>
>
>Cheers!
>
>Reinout
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