Cost of Squeak

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Mon Nov 15 17:56:15 UTC 2004


Am 15.11.2004 um 13:25 schrieb lex at cc.gatech.edu:

> Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
>> But seriously, you can change the parameters you can get every result
>> you want. Looks to me like a perfect application of the GIGO 
>> principle.
>> ;-)
>
> I wonder where they came up with 167k lines of code?  Squeak has had
> well over 200k for a long time, probably 300k today.  And that's just
> the main image; it doesn't count more than a handful of external
> packages.

That's refering to the VM sources checked into CVS.

It's interesting, though, I'd estimate the image to be at least two 
orders of magnitude more complex than the VM, yet in LOC they're 
similar ... speaks for the power of Smalltalk in comparison to C, I 
guess.

- Bert -




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