[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Squeak/Pharo/Cuis on Android

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:40:58AM -0800, Colin Putney wrote:
>  
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> 
> > Wasn't this what Dan Ingalls did at Sun before starting the Lively
> > Kernel?
> 
> IIRC, it was a new Squeak VM written from-scratch in Java, rather than
> generating Java from Slang.
> 
> Colin

Yes, that's right. There is some information here:
 http://news.squeak.org/2008/07/07/potato-version-of-jsqueak-from-hpi/

So I think that the idea of writing Slang code generators for
other languages remains unexplored territory. In particular,
the performance benefit of the Slang inliner are huge for the
C VMs, and if any similar optimizations were to prove effective
for Java, then the results might turn out better than expected.

Dave