Tom <tmb at lumo.com> wrote:
> I was curious where the various implementations of a few
> dynamic languages stand now and I implemented some simple
> benchmarks.  You can find them at http://www.lumo.com/squeak-bench/
> In general, Squeak does pretty well compared to Python.

But why does Squeak do poorly compared to Java (even without JIT)?  Is
it mainly because Java has static typing and no escaping method contexts
(blocks)?