At 7:48 AM +0000 1/28/02, alban read wrote:
>Despite all the hype about the self compiler it actually runs like
>a total dog (Self 4.1 on the Mac anyway).
>It has to be ten times slower than Squeak and is too slow to be useful.
>(Which is a shame)

You *do* realize that the Macintosh port is only a basic port of the 
bytecode interpreter, don't you? None of the compiler technology was 
translated at all, and the Self VM design was such that the bytecode 
interpreter was left devoid of any optimizations for simplicity's 
sake. The blitter seems also to have been designed with X11 in mind, 
and that may be the largest source of hiccups and slow-downs.

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