> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Bergel, Alexandre
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:09 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Smalltalk and Java
> 
> Portability is one good reason. I have found another good reason few
> weeks ago when I saw the talk of Jim Hugunin on Iron Python (Python
> for .Net). Jim said that he experiences a significant improvement of
> Iron Python at each new version of .Net.
> 
> In the case of Athena this is not true (yet) since there is no JIT.
> But it would not be surprising if a smalltalk program compiled for a
> JVM has a better performance than the same program on the standard
> squeak VM.
> 
> The link of Jim's talk: http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/
> presentations/JimHugunin_2007_DynamicLanguagesOnDotNetWithTheDlr_Dls.pdf
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
> 
> 

And one nice morning, suddenly Athena.Net can support multi-core CPU without
flexing a finger. ;-)

Cheers,

PhiHo.