[squeak-dev] Compiling Smalltalk

David Zmick dz0004455 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 02:17:27 UTC 2009


Oh, I was not aware of that! Thank you!

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us> wrote:

>  David Zmick wrote:
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> Me and a cousin of mine where discussing the speed of compiled languages vs
> the speed of interpreted languages and the subject of compiling interpreted
> languages came up.  Languages like Java that are compiled down to bytecode
> can then be compiled to machine code, but I was under the impression that
> concept was impossible with smalltalk. Why is this?
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> I have no idea why you're under that impression; it's perfectly possible to
> compile Smalltalk to machine code.   :-)
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> There are many existence proofs, such as VisualWorks, Exupery, and Cog.
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> (BTW, the jargon is Just In Time compilation, or JITting).
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> Cheers,
> Josh
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> And, I know there is a project to build a compiler for smaltalk, what is
> the concept behind it?
>
> thanks
>
> --
> David Zmick
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> http://david-zmick.co.cc
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