Can Squeak be faster than Java? Yes :-)
Michael Haupt
mhaupt at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 23:16:29 UTC 2007
Hi Klaus,
On 2/16/07, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
> > yup. In JVM implementations, the link to the meta level is not as
> > direct as in Smalltalk VMs. This explains why Squeak is better off
> > than Java.
>
> :) but, again, this is not asked for in Google's summer of code 2007 :(
hell yes. Can we change that?
> I'm not a VW VM expert but the main difference is
> - http://www.google.com/search?q=visualworks+context+to+stack+mapping
Thanks for this pointer! That is something I *have* to read for sure.
Best,
Michael
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