> Self has an even bigger legacy, the JVM is basically all the technology that made Self fast ported over to Java. Java only became fast after the HotSpot serv

> Self has an even bigger legacy, the JVM is basically all the technology that made Self fast ported over to Java. Java only became fast after the HotSpot server compiler, which was written by Cliff Click (and Micahael Paleczny / Christopher Vick) and takes a different approach than Smalltalk / Self compilers.