igouy

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   by igouy 1y ago

   We could measure programs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022366
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   by igouy 1y ago

   Let's not pluck numbers out of thin air. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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   by igouy 1y ago

   > Java performance isn't the fastest, that's ok, a close 3rd place behind C/CPP ain't bad. And you're still ahead of Go, and 10x or more ahead of Python and Ruby. Of course, rank depends on what we include or exc
4. 364.▲
   by igouy 1y ago

   We do revert back to a previous context if that seems practical: revert back to a previous compiler or library version.
5. 365.▲
   by igouy 1y ago

   Free as in beer, in contrast to proprietary Smalltalk.
6. 366.▲
   by igouy 1y ago

   > Send button in the new design (on the right) is larger … their eyes saw the button four times faster … Perhaps some well known rule of interaction might apply.
7. 367.▲
   by igouy 1y ago

   obsolescence
8. 368.▲
   by igouy 1y ago

   We say the context has breaking changes. We say the context is not backwards compatible.
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   by igouy 1y ago

   Today after re-install on MSWin10 Object become: nil Cuis does crash & exit, or hangs, or … Sorry but the Squeak VM has crashed. … crash.dmp
10. 370.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    Today after re-install on MSWin10 true := false Cuis is perfectly OK Cannot store into ->
11. 371.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    You said it's the context that rots.
12. 372.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    Which could be handled without crash & exit behavior. That does not crash Pharo Smalltalk. That does not crash Dolphin Smalltalk. Object class(Object)>>error: Object class(Object)>>primitiveFailed Object class(
13. 373.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    The "couldn't possibly work" things seem different — they don't crash the VM and exit.
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Seems like Cuis Smalltalk also has that crash & exit behavior. That does not crash Pharo Smalltalk. That does not crash Dolphin Smalltalk.
15. 375.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    With Python or Java or Rust don't we have to know what we want and where to find it?
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    by igouy 1y ago

    `yjit` was enabled explicitly. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... > Let me specify that what I'm calling interpreted… Is everything except native aot compilers.
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > Lots of things went wrong. https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914 > non-native widgets Digitalk’s Visual Smalltalk and IBM’s VisualAge provided native widgets.
18. 378.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    > but I will never get used to using a graphical VM and UI to develop ordinary programs. I guess that by "ordinary programs" you mean command-line TUI programs. Being able to explore and inspect helps whether you are writing GU
19. 379.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    Perhaps Lively Kernel? https://www.lively-kernel.org/presentations/
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > not all Smalltalk vendors switched to Java Cincom only acquired the VisualWorks Smalltalk software after ParcPlace had unsuccessfully rebranded as ObjectShare in response to the emergence of free as in beer Java.
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    by igouy 1y ago

    fwiw There are a few naive un-optimised single-thread #8 n-body programs transliterated line-by-line literal style into different programming languages from the same original. [1] > a single digit multiple By which you mean < 10× ?
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    by igouy 1y ago

    For example, send #class to nil nil class UndefinedObject For example, send #iainmerrick to nil nil iainmerrick Object>>doesNotUnderstand: UndefinedObject>>{unbound}doIt
23. 383.▲
    by igouy 1y ago

    Also: ParallelNBodyPerformance Public https://github.com/MarkCLewis/ParallelNBodyPerformance
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    by igouy 1y ago

    And even if there were: "We are not finders of fact. We are tellers of story. You base the story on the evidence, no? No! We base the evidence on the story. We prove what helps us, and we disprove what hurts us. Whoev
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    by igouy 1y ago

    And for those who have access 2022 "N-Body Performance With a kD-Tree: Comparing Rust to Other Languages" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10216574 2025 "Parallel N-Body Performance Comparison: Julia
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    by igouy 1y ago

    > the SmallTalk / Obj-C thing where you could send messages to nil and they're silently ignored. Messages sent to the Smalltalk UndefinedObject instance are not silently ignored — #doesNotUnderstand. Sometimes that run time mes
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Lest we forget: > Java played a pivotal role in popularizing object-oriented programming, because it was ... Free as in beer.
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    by igouy 1y ago

    For example • … manages the retirement savings of 5.5 million users • … for a value of 23 billion Euros • … with a team of 30 developers over 7 years https://erwan.lemonnier.se/talks/pluto.html https
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    by igouy 1y ago

    Don't have manifest types and don't have manifest interfaces. Someone has already referenced "Adding Dynamic Interfaces to Smalltalk" [0] and looking back there doesn't seem to be any kind of demonstration that
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    by igouy 1y ago

    1992 "Interfaces and Specifications for the Smalltalk Collection Classes" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/141936.141938