[squeak-dev] what is holding back Smalltalk?

Claus Kick claus_kick at web.de
Fri Nov 21 20:31:41 UTC 2008


Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:

> But at what cost????

It is a high cost at times, granted :>

> Java is more suited for small applications 

I am sorry, but could you please explain this?

 > and I guess that Oracle
> people got it right when they started to migrate from old tools to Java
> in order to have better UI development. 

What UI development do you mean?

 > But when you have to handle
> large amounts of data and extremely dynamic objects and things like that
> Java performance drops to the point that it is better to use C++ or even
> C...

This sounds interesting - could you please elaborate a bit further?

> Interesting enough, there are lots of re-engineering initiatives for the
> Java VM. Up to the moment nobody was able to create a VM that lessens
> the troubles with the garbage collection system and other performance
> related topics.

Well, one performance related topic is halfway gone: graphics.



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