Can Squeak be faster than Java? Yes :-)

Michael Haupt mhaupt at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 00:12:42 UTC 2007


Hi Tim,

On 2/17/07, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> > VW still being *much* better is interesting, though. Perhaps the JIT
> > compiler kicks in, or the interpreter is much smarter.
> There *is no* interpreter in VW. When a method is activated in VW it
> only runs the translated code; if there isn't any in the n-cache it
> takes a moment to translate the bytecodes.

thanks for pointing this out, that's good to know. :-)

Best,

Michael



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