At 11:33 PM -0500 11/13/99, Carlos Antonio Perez wrote:

>	Thanx for the quick answer. Who are the people working on J3? Is
>there a documentation page on the project?
>
>	Why is jitter no longer distributed (developed?) ?

Jitter 1 is no longer distributed because it was superceded by Jitter 2.

Jitter 2 was never distributed because it was superceded by Jitter 3.

Jitter 4 was never distributed because it existed (thus far) only as a typo ;)

IIRC, Jitter 1 only gave about a 30% speed up. The standard VM has improved
by at least that much (twice?), so there isn't a lot of point when J3
promises so much more. And here's what Dan had to say about distributing J3:

>Ian seems to have his project well in hand, but I thought it deserves some
>mention in this list of semi-coordinated activity.  Ian has made great
>progress, as those of you who were at OOPSLA will be aware.  I'm hoping we
>can pick a reasonable plateau in the next few weeks and formally distribute
>a J3 VM, so that people can start enjoying the fruits of this very cool
>work.

I'm much looking forward to it.

(BTW, I saw some benchmarks that put Squeak as of around 2.3 at near twice
the speed of Python 1.5. J3 promises to double or treble that--wild!)

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.