4 ms·

Well, saying that it's faster than the two slowest mainstream languages today is not exactly setting the bar very high :)

• igouy 4y ago
  What makes you think Smalltalk was sold on the basis of runtime performance? "… it is possible to write time critical, real-time applications while still maintaining access to the user-interface facilities of Smalltalk. In the ESM testbed, C language support has been provided both by a package of C-to-Smalltalk communication primitives, and by high-level C code debugging facilities accessible from the Smalltalk environment." 1987 "USING OBJECTS TO DESIGN AND BUILD RADAR ESM SYSTEM'S" p200 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/38765.38825 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/38765.38825
  • hota_mazi 4y ago
    > What makes you think Smalltalk was sold on the basis of runtime performance? Nothing, because I never said anything of the sort. What I did say was that Smalltalk has always been very slow compared to other languages. It was true decades ago, it's still true today.
    • igouy 4y ago
      Very slow compared to some language implementations to do some things, not very slow compared to others. So much for vague generalities.