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But those machines (Smalltalk, Lisp) had dedicated HW dealing with gc, special instructions, etc.
by malkia 17y ago
But those machines (Smalltalk, Lisp) had dedicated HW dealing with gc, special instructions, etc.
- stcredzero 17y agoI remember being a fly on the wall at a discussion between several very smart VM guys at Camp Smalltalk maybe 7 or 8 years ago. (VisualWorks, Smalltalk/X, Smalltalk Agents, Squeak, Dolphin.) Apparently, there's a lot of stuff chip makers could put in to general-purpose processors to generically support High Level languages. I think it's high time we had some of this, given the prevalence of Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP (yes, it would benefit them too).