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In theory one could build a computer that runs Smalltalk at a fast speed.
by scroot 9y ago
In theory one could build a computer that runs Smalltalk at a fast speed.
- joshuamorton 9y agoAnd in reality people have built interpreters that run python at a high speed.
- pjmlp 9y agoI guess we don't have the same understanding of what high speed actually means.
- joshuamorton 9y agoIn the context of the above comment, I'd say that they're about the same. Pypy appears to run between half-as-fast and twice-as-fast as java (hotspot) with a much smaller memory footprint, depending on the benchmark.