[Newbies] Re: Embedded smalltalk

[Klaus D. Witzel]

Heh, nice find. Thank you Ralph for the pointer.

/Klaus

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:43:14 +0200, Ralph Johnson wrote:

> On 8/8/06, 啸然 <simbba at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But, the GC of Smalltalk is not realtime, it's a big problem for  
>> realtime
>> control.
>
> The GC of Squeak is not realtime, but people have made Smalltalks with
> realtime memory management.
>
> The original OTI Smalltalk, which morphed into IBM's VisualAge for
> Smalltalk, was real-time.  When OTI reengineered it for IBM, one of
> the first things they did was write a faster, but non-realtime,
> garbage collector.
>
> See http://www.oovm.com/ for a commercial system that might see the
> light of day.  I played with it a bit and it was pretty nice, though
> they changed the langauge to improve its performance on very small
> machines.