[Vm-dev] primitiveDigitCompare is slow (was: Re: [squeak-dev] The
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David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Apr 15 12:06:44 UTC 2016
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:51:21AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> On 15.04.2016, at 05:27, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > <meta>
> > It is really quite remarkable that we could be having this discussion
> > at all. An open source virtual machine for Smalltalk that is so fast that
> > is not even worth the trouble to call out to C primitives? Really?!? Wow.
> > </meta>
>
> You would get a kick out of taking a closer look at the RSqueak VM. It doesn???t even use the primitives for BitBlt but runs the Smalltalk code.
>
You're right, I would like to take a closer look at RSqueak. It's getting
hard to keep up with all of this progress :-)
Dave
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