On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 01:50:26PM -0300, J. Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
This is absolutely beautiful!
Performance figures are rather modest: Safari: 3,401,360 bytecode/s 127,111 sends/s Firefox: 4,232,804 bytecode/s 152,003 sends/s Chrome: 1,860,465 bytecode/s 76,859 send/s StackVM: 623,250,152 bytecode/s 13,392,546 sends/s
But still, MVC is _very_ usable. I could even set display depth to 32bpp, and play with mandalas and such in full color. Wonderful!
This makes me think... Maybe MVC could still be useful as a low overhead UI for servers that usually run headless, very low power hardware, etc...
I think that the lightweight MVC interface was important for demonstrating the RoarVM for exactly this reason.
http://news.squeak.org/tag/roarvm/
Dave