[squeak-dev] Re: The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean)

Bryce Kampjes bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 30 21:25:49 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 00:59 +0200, Göran Krampe wrote:
> >     Press at least one good JIT design through to completion
> >     document it, and keep it alive on every platform.
> 
> I presume Cog is our hope? The latest "news" in this area is that Eliot 
> mentioned he is looking closer at the JIT in Factor (factorcode.org) and 
> even considers porting it! And lots of JIT libs around these days, 
> Nanojit in Tracemonkey, libJIT etc etc.
> 
> But one thing is true - performance *kicks ass*. We may go on and on 
> about how "unimportant" performance is but darnit, it really is a killer 
> feature if we had a REAL fast VM whupping the Pyhon/Rubys. ;)

Exupery development is still continuing though the rest of this year is
likely to be slow but speeding up as the months go by. The current task
is dynamically inlining methods.

Bryce




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