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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 maint
by 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 agoVery slow compared to some language implementations to do some things, not very slow compared to others. So much for vague generalities.