Brian Brown wrote:
> 
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> I was *amazed* how usable it already is in terms of speed (10-20% 
>> slowdown) as well as productivity.
> 
> 
> I assume you meant speedup as opposed to slowdown?

No, I meant slowdown. HydraVM is a little slower than your average 
Squeak VM because it needs to manage the multi-threaded state. But if 
you are capable of making effective use of it in a multicore environment 
you obviously get more than you pay for by multiplying it for the number 
of cores.

Cheers,
   - Andreas