[squeak-dev] Interesting news re Dolphin ST

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sat Sep 27 09:37:34 UTC 2008


2008/9/26, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/9/25 Chris Kassopulo <ckasso at sprynet.com>:
>>>
>>> http://www.lesser-software.com/en/content/products/lswvst/lswvst.htm
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It would be nice to look at it (LSWV).
>> So many cool features. Too bad its proprietary. :(
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
> Is the cost prohibitive?  Dolphin wasn't free, but it was really cheap
> and a quality product.  Keep in mind that while programming languages
> have been largely "commoditized"  the best implementations of many
> languages still cost money.  E.g. you want the best C compiler?  It's
> not GCC.  Buy the Intel compiler and watch your code run twice as
> fast.

If you define best best as "longest bar in some benchmark". If you
want to run your software only on Intel chips, no AMD, no Motorola, no
Sun, no .... If you want to put up with all kinds of trouble and
issues compiling software that was written with GCC in mind like all
the GNU/Linux software. Maybe even Squeak thanks to gnuify. Yeah, then
ICC might be the "best".

Cheers
Philippe



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