If I understand correctly, the Self VM was fast because a whole lot of work
went into native code generation technology.  See

http://www.sunlabs.com/nova/cgi-bin/index.cgi?a=r&s=9343&e=9356&f=%2Fhtdocs%
2Fself%2Flanguage.html&i=

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niko Schwarz [mailto:niko.schwarz at gmx.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:24 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Squid VM
> 
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> Am Sonntag, 4. Mai 2003 23:28 schrieb Michael van der Gulik:
> 
> > - And  would it be possible to make a language-independant 
> VM, perhaps
> > with modifications to respective compilers, that could compile and
> > interpret Squeak, ANSI Smalltalk or Squid. Redesigning a 
> wheel is better
> > than reinventing it.
> 
> yes, the idea is tempting. A while ago I asked myself how 
> difficult it would 
> be to create a Self environment, and run squeak images in it.
> I mean: the Self VM is said to be spectacularly fast, and 
> Self has all the 
> advantages that Anthony wanted, and most of all: the Squeak 
> stuff would not 
> be lost.
> 
> regards,
> 
> nick
> - -- 
> Molecule, n.:
> 	The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.  It is distinguished
> from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of 
> matter, by a
> closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of
> matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the
> atom in that it is an ion ...
> 	-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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