[squeak-dev] Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System: what was the hardware?

Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel at merlintec.com
Thu Jul 25 21:57:26 UTC 2019


Yoshiki Ohshima wrote on Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:29:32 -0700
> 0.6% Dorado sounds pretty good!

That is 160 times slower than a Dorado, which did about 400K bytecodes
per second. So their Modula-2 implementation would do something like
2400 bytecodes per second. Apple Smalltalk on the Lisa was about four
times faster than that, for example.

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:55 AM Michael Ruege wrote:
> >
> >
> > it probably was a 68020.

Sun introduced their first 68020 machines in September of 1985, so
either the 1984 article was based on their earlier 10MHz 68010 computers
or on non Sun machines (which I wouldn't expect given the previous
Berkeley Smalltalk project).

-- Jecel


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