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The original Smalltalk-80 VMs (Xerox and others) did not have JIT. Deutsch and Schiffman did the 1st JIT one (PS) that was the parent of the ParcPlace HPS VMs.
by pinewurst 4y ago
The original Smalltalk-80 VMs (Xerox and others) did not have JIT. Deutsch and Schiffman did the 1st JIT one (PS) that was the parent of the ParcPlace HPS VMs.
- johndoe0815 4y agoThe paper describing this first Smalltalk JIT is available at ACM (all ACM papers published before the end of 2000 are open access now): L Peter Deutsch and Allan M. Schiffman, Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System, POPL '84: Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800017.800542 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800017.800542