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Smaller than it would be if it were written in Smalltalk instead of C. (I'm kidding, I like Smalltalk, but the comparison to an OS doesn't do much when we're di
by claudiawerner 7y ago
Smaller than it would be if it were written in Smalltalk instead of C. (I'm kidding, I like Smalltalk, but the comparison to an OS doesn't do much when we're discussing the size of very small bits of code).
- jecel 7y agoActually, having written operating systems in C, Objective-C and Smalltalk I can say that unless we are talking about something MS-DOS like in simplicity then the Smalltalk OS will be much smaller than the C one. The unstripped binary for the Little Smalltalk 3 virtual machine is 55,229 bytes on my Linux computer and the systemImage file, at 102,100 bytes, includes mostly things that would not be needed for a "hello world" program.