Common Smalltalk VM Summit

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 6 17:25:16 UTC 2006


>From: "David Griswold" <David.Griswold at acm.org>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: RE: Common Smalltalk VM Summit
>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:29:23 -0700
>
>- I am a fan of things like Exupery etc.  But I don't think it is 
>reasonable
>in the near future to retrofit type-feedback into any of the existing VM
>frameworks.  If it was that easy it would already have been done.  The
>type-feedback infrastructure needs to be built in from the beginning.
>Without that infrastructure, no compiler will even get close to the
>performance of type-feedback on general Smalltalk code (as opposed to
>microbenchmarks).
>
>Dave
>

I'm confused.  I thought type-feedback wasn't going to give and speed 
improvements.  If not, then what does it buy?





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