[squeak-dev] java interpreter/compiler hosted with Spur?

Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel at merlintec.com
Wed Jan 29 20:14:07 UTC 2014


Frank Shearar wrote:

> A little bit of digging reveals this:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20090122105548/http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2008/10/15/will-it-go-round-in-circles
> which looks like it was written by Rick DeNatale (judging by the "I
> served as the secretary of X3J20." sentence.)

Thanks for the information! I was aware of Smalltalk/X using dual
bytecode sets but didn't know it had been done previously. Allowing
multiple bytecodes is one of the features planned for Cog, right? My own
design allows multiple bytecodes but it is very costly to switch between
them.

-- Jecel



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