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SELF was really fast, at least as claimed [0] - about half the speed of optimized C and quicker to compile. It was where the HotSpot tech for the JVM came from,
by rileyphone 4y ago
SELF was really fast, at least as claimed [0] - about half the speed of optimized C and quicker to compile. It was where the HotSpot tech for the JVM came from, and V8 uses a similar object model and thus techniques. Just wish they could have made it usable!
[0] https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/practical.html https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/practical.html
- igouy 4y agoafaict Self and Dylan were research projects / product development projects. Smalltalk had multiple commercial implementations and was used to build mission critical software in banks and utility companies and manufacturing companies and… https://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf https://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf
- pjmlp 4y agoApple sold Dylan to Harlequin, which sold it as a DylanWorks for some time. Smalltalk still has commercial implementations, like Cincom. https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/ https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/