J J wrote:
>> No. First, Exupery is not a JIT.
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> I had been told it was.  In this list actually.

Yeah, it's quite confusing actually. I found the statement that 
"[Exupery is] a "JIT" for Squeak that doesn't compile just in time" 
which (to me) makes no sense as "JIT" stands for "just in time" so how 
could a JIT not compile just in time? ;-)

Cheers,
   - Andreas

>> Second, it is not yet in a state where it can be used for serious 
>> production projects.
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> Right.  Which is why I said "Speeding up now is good".
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>> Third, having a plugin doesn't mean you can't have a pure smalltalk 
>> version - in fact the pure smalltalk version would be the default 
>> isn't available. Therefore, adding the primitives doesn't take 
>> anything away, all it does is add some very significant speed benefits.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   - Andreas
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> Well it sounds like a big win then.
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