On 29.01.2012 21:12, Guido Stepken wrote:
I often discuss with Frank Lesser about Smalltalk compiler internals. He
has written a Smalltalk VM (GVM), that is written in Assembler and jits
Smalltalk directly dynamically into Intel machine code, that is *faster*
than C in normal cases, expecially when fine tuned, able to run VS, VA,
Squeak, Dolphin, Lesser Smalltalk in their own namespace, and MP!!!
Sounds strange, because of different implementations (bytecode,
callbacks...). GC runs on a 2.nd processor, what means, no more
interruptions, Real Time Availability!!! If you want, you can control
all traffic signs of NY within one Intel machine.
He proofes, that Smalltalk, expecially Pharo is far away from being at
the end.... :-)
(And yes, i try to convince him to take part in the "language shootout"
and make his GVM MIT license) :-)
You didn't get my point. My point is tools suck until you fix them. Just
saying you could fix them doesn't fix them.
To rehash the argument:
Me: Monticello doesn't scale
Stef: we could make Monticello scale
Now does this make Monticello scale? In the STPW it does. It the real
world it doesn't until somebody goes there and fixes Monticello.
So what are we discussing the real world or the STPW?
Cheers
Philippe
