On Thursday 05 August 2004 15:43, Reinout Heeck wrote:
> You may want to look into the Merlin runtime for Self.

Thanks for mentioning this - now I am forced to add some details ;-). 
The paper you cited is rather old, so interested people might want to 
look at the tinySelf 1 effort in 
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~jecel/tiny.html#rel1

I got sidetracked by other things and never did finish debugging this so 
that full applications could be tested, but the results for simple 
expressions show just how much potential parallelism there is in 
Smalltalk.

The project is currently called Neo Smalltalk (software) and Plurion 
(hardware) and the focus is on making the best use of a set of slow 
processors. The FPGA versions will have between 2 and 6 processors 
running at 100MHz and there are three interesting possibilities for 
doing custom chip versions which would be larger and faster.

Future compatibility with Squeak is a very high priority goal, but it is 
likely that the first efforts in this direction won't make use of 
multiple processors.

-- Jecel