[squeak-dev] Re: The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean)

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Wed Jul 1 11:57:45 UTC 2009


Hi Bryce!

Bryce Kampjes wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 00:59 +0200, Göran Krampe wrote:
>>>     Press at least one good JIT design through to completion
>>>     document it, and keep it alive on every platform.
>> I presume Cog is our hope? The latest "news" in this area is that Eliot 
>> mentioned he is looking closer at the JIT in Factor (factorcode.org) and 
>> even considers porting it! And lots of JIT libs around these days, 
>> Nanojit in Tracemonkey, libJIT etc etc.
>>
>> But one thing is true - performance *kicks ass*. We may go on and on 
>> about how "unimportant" performance is but darnit, it really is a killer 
>> feature if we had a REAL fast VM whupping the Pyhon/Rubys. ;)
> 
> Exupery development is still continuing though the rest of this year is
> likely to be slow but speeding up as the months go by. The current task
> is dynamically inlining methods.

I deliberately didn't mention your work because I didn't want to put 
pressure and since Cog was slated for this summer (I think) I guess Cog 
may deliver before Exupery starts to deliver in earnest.

But inlining of methods sounds like it could be a booster, right?

regards, Göran




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