i could never get huemel to work :(

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/6/30 Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org>:
>  > Hi,
> >
> >> If you able to compile things at run time, then why compiling C at all?
> >> See Exupery & friends. - Igor
> >
> > Exupery seems very interesting.
> >
> > There is lots of C/C++ code out there in use in many projects.
> >
> > I can't always control what technologies clients use or which is of
> interest
> > to reuse.
> >
> > Take a code base such as OpenBSD or FreeBSD or NetBSD which is almost
> > entirely C/C++ based and evolve it to the next level.
> >
> > Moose seems interesting. Thanks for that link. Very interesting indeed.
> >
> > Speed is always fun - fast programs and fast cars that is.
> >
>
> Moreover, if you looking for speed, just take a look at Huemul Smalltalk :)
> Its generates native code using Exupery, bypassing a bytecode at all.
> Moreover, i made a compiler, which can be translate smalltalk code to
> low-level native code, without even need of using external tools and
> writing primitives in C.
> Guess, how faster it could be compared to bytecode-driven VM , written
> and compiled by C compiler.
> In the end it would be possible to implement a self-sustained system
> without need of writing a single line of code in C.
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > [ | peter at smalltalk dot org ] value
> >
>
>
>
>  --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>


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