You can check out the papers by Andrew and Ian on the process at 
http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook

Mark

>Dear Squeak'ers,
>
>I wonder if there is any documentation on the translation of the Squeak VM
>to C? I've read the BTF paper but find it a bit terse on the actual
>transformations/translation rules used.
>
>I guess you'll point me to the sources but I'm not very fluent in
>Smalltalk (I'm coming to it from a Ruby background) so I'd appreciate any
>paper(s) with technical detail on the translation.
>
>How complex is the translation? Is it like a Smalltalk-to-C compiler
>preserving some or most of the Smalltalk semantics or is it more like C
>written in a Smalltalk syntax?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Robert Feldt
>feldt at ce.chalmers.se

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