Hi, Stef -
what is the speed of your VM on a normally fast :) Java VM?
I don't know what a normally fast JVM is. However I can say that on my Mac it runs about 1/10 the speed of the native Squeak VM, in both tinyBenchmark figures. The BitBlt is much faster -- almost the same speed -- and the end result is that the Mini image is entirely usable, even without text or line drawing primitives, nor any of the stream primitives. I can think of various hacks to make it faster, but that's not my focus right now.
It's nice and small. I've never printed it, so I can't say how many pages, but it's 160k of source code. The entire .jar file is 433k, which includes the VM and the mini image (you know, the one that can decompile 800k of source code with temp names).
- Dan