[squeak-dev] Compiling Smalltalk

Joshua Gargus schwa at fastmail.us
Sat Jul 11 01:55:05 UTC 2009


David Zmick wrote:
> Me and a cousin of mine where discussing the speed of compiled
> languages vs the speed of interpreted languages and the subject of
> compiling interpreted languages came up.  Languages like Java that are
> compiled down to bytecode can then be compiled to machine code, but I
> was under the impression that concept was impossible with smalltalk.
> Why is this?  

I have no idea why you're under that impression; it's perfectly possible
to compile Smalltalk to machine code.   :-)

There are many existence proofs, such as VisualWorks, Exupery, and Cog.

(BTW, the jargon is Just In Time compilation, or JITting).

Cheers,
Josh


> And, I know there is a project to build a compiler for smaltalk, what
> is the concept behind it?
>
> thanks
>
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> David Zmick
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