[OT] Gosling on the object/primitive gap

tblanchard at mac.com tblanchard at mac.com
Wed Aug 13 14:52:19 UTC 2003


Heh - cool.  He was responding to me.
I do not like this Java thing.  I do not like it James Gosling.

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 05:04  PM, 
Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com wrote:

> James Gosling (Java creator) on the object/primitive gap:
>> From http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/archives/001452.html
>
> Depends on your performance goals. Uniform type systems are easy if 
> your
> performance goals aren't real strict. In the java case, I wanted to be 
> able
> to compile "a=b+c" into one instruction on almost all architectures 
> with a
> reasonable compiler. The closest thing I've seen to accomplishing this 
> is
> "Self" which gets close, except that the compiler is very complex and
> expensive, and it doesn't get nearly all the cases. I haven't read any 
> of
> the squeak papers, so I can't comment on it.
>
> Found on James Robertsons Weblog
> http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView#3238140088
>



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