On 3-May-07, at 1:34 PM, Ralph Boland wrote:
>
>      4)  SLang

> The reason for  4)  is to allow users to write code that they mean
> to be efficient.  My understanding is that SLang is  C like and gives
> similar performance.  Of course translating SLang methods to byte
> codes will slow it down but it should still be useful when  
> performance matters.

Er, not quite. Slang is Smalltalk written in a rather ugly pidjin-C  
style so that the CCodeGenerator and associated classes can digest  
it. See http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/slang . It is already  
'translated to byte codes' since it simply compiles normally and is  
run normally when using the InterpreterSimulator.

tim
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