On 19-Sep-06, at 2:14 PM, Peace Jerome wrote:

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> I've been look into things that make squeak slow

After many years involvement, my opinion is that the chief thing that  
'makes smalltalk  slow' is that it is so easy to write code that is  
good enough that nobody bothers to revisit it later. Combine that  
with the mindset it supports of 'ooh, lets try this way' and there  
you are; partially finished, almost-good ideas by the dozen.

Smalltalk as a language is not slow; even the very simplistic  
interpreter we use for Squeak is amazingly fast. Smalltalk as a  
system embodying loads of fantastic and scads of horrific code is  
slow. Sometimes.


tim
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