Complexity and starting over on the JVM (ideas)

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 19:55:04 UTC 2008


On Feb 11, 2008 5:12 AM, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com>
wrote:


> But in general, when you go from Smalltalk to a static language you get a
> speed boost at the cost of reflection and dynamic debuggability. You shift
> from using full featured objects (with reflective introspective abilities)
> and using full featured stack frame entries (garbage collectible to
> support
> full blocks) to using only limited objects which just do exactly what you
> specify and using only a stack which is linear (not fractal, like
> Smalltalk)
> and so can be optimized to use the stack of the real machine (or virtual
> machine) more easily.
>


What is a fractal stack?

Gulik.

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