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Back in the day (early 2000's) it had some interesting features. I remember seeing a facility for writing methods in C, but I'm not sure if that was a demo or i
by stcredzero 10y ago
Back in the day (early 2000's) it had some interesting features. I remember seeing a facility for writing methods in C, but I'm not sure if that was a demo or if that made it as a feature. Also, if I recall correctly, it was a JIT VM when Squeak and Dolphin didn't have one.
- jan_vrany 9y agoIt still has this feature. In fact, is built so deep into the system it cannot be used without inline C. Smalltalk/X does not support primitives (or native methods if you come from Java world). Instead, you use inline C to escape Smalltalk world.