Jerzy Karczmarczuk <karczma at info.unicaen.fr> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Less flexible VMachines, which don't recognize any "bytecodes", but use
> threading
> are faster. But I suspect that basing Smalltalk on a (say, indirect) threaded
> code would be non-trivial. Anybody ever tried?
Yup. Eliot miranda's later versions of BrouHaHa were threaded; pretty
fast too. I _think_ something like 80% of the performance of the
ParcPlace VMs of the same vintage.

Ian Piumarta's first attempt at a squeak dynamic translator was a
variety of threader as well.

tim
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