[Newbies] Why Squeak is so sloooow?

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 06:05:33 UTC 2006


Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> Antonio,
>
> If you evaluate the following (and print-it):
>
> | a b |
> a := FloatArray new: (16 * 1024*1024).
> b := FloatArray new: (16 * 1024*1024).
> [a += b] timeToRun.

Is this really a good idea? After all it's implemented in C
(FloatPlugin). To me this is like pointing out how fast Dictionaries
and OrderedCollections in Python or Ruby are which are as well
implemented in C.

Philippe



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