Don't be nice if this big company sponsor Squeak ?

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Tue Nov 14 10:54:55 UTC 2006


Hi all (and Dan)!

Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 10:36 , Michael Rueger wrote:
> 
> > Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> >> http://research.sun.com/projects/squawk/
> >> Any comments ?
> >
> > Wonder where this comes from ;-)
> > See the people page under the letter "I" :-)
> 
> Actually I think this started way before Dan went to Sun.
> 
> Sounds impressive though:
> 
> "The static footprint of the core system (interpreter, a RAM garbage  
> collector, an non-volatile memory garbage collector), compiled from  
> C, is 25 kB on x86.  The minimum runtime footprint in RAM is 520  
> bytes for the Java heap and 532 bytes for native stack and data (on  
> x86)."
> 
> - Bert -

I noted the name Eric Arsenau, didn't he write Pocket Smalltalk for the
Palm? And David Simmons also is mentioned somewhere in there.

regards, Göran



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