[Vm-dev] RoarVM: The Manycore SqueakVM

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Back when I did Berkeley Smalltalk (early 1980's), I fretted a lot about incremental performance improvements to the interpreter.
Every few days I was able to get another few percent, as I recall. Then Peter and Alan did the first OO JIT ([Deutsch-Schiffman '84])
and it was so much faster than BS, it became clear to me that I didn't want to spend any more of my time optimizing an interpreter
when I could be adding a simple compiler instead. But that's just own experience.

 - David


On Nov 6, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Michael Haupt wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 06.11.2010 um 22:45 schrieb Ian Piumarta <piumarta at speakeasy.net>:
>> 
>>> Michael Haupt has a few nice slides visualizing what threaded code is about :)
>> 
>> A sort explanation is here, too:  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.92.513&rep=rep1&type=pdf
> 
> one of the sources extensively used in the slides. ;-)
> 
>> 
> Best,
> 
> Michael