Can Squeak be faster than Java? Yes :-)
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Sat Feb 17 01:53:49 UTC 2007
On 16-Feb-07, at 2:26 PM, Michael Haupt wrote:
>
> VW still being *much* better is interesting, though. Perhaps the JIT
> compiler kicks in, or the interpreter is much smarter.
There *is no* interpreter in VW. When a method is activated in VW it
only runs the translated code; if there isn't any in the n-cache it
takes a moment to translate the bytecodes.
tim
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