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by igouy 2y ago
> Source Code In Database ? https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope... https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by igouy 2y ago
> much-criticized "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." > showed Ruby ≤ 1.8 a good deal slower than CPython 2 It's taken me a couple of days to remember web.ar
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by igouy 2y ago
Thanks for the nudge: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
Also https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
ruby 3.3.0 vs ruby 1.8.7 https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
"The most common class of 'less suitable' problems is characterised by performance being a prime requirement and constant-factors having a large effect on performance." FAQ 1.4 What sort of problems is Erlang not particu
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by igouy 2y ago
The benchmarks game website does quote the Erlang FAQ: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
> Smalltalk has issues on exporting your software to be run under a standalone way. What issues?
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by igouy 2y ago
The other links do work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40612347
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by igouy 2y ago
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... déjà vu all over again (Or would C# aot and GraalVM be more to the point?)
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by igouy 2y ago
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by igouy 2y ago
With getters and setters as default whither "information hiding".
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by igouy 2y ago
“To see all of the globe, you have to rotate it; to see all of our new map, you simply have to flip it over.” That's a way to see half of the Earth, and then separately see the other half.
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Live Metacircular Runtimes: The case of Egg Smalltalk(meetup.com)
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by igouy 2y ago
"Live Objects All The Way Down: Removing the Barriers between Applications and Virtual Machines" https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16973
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by igouy 2y ago
> lose on practicality Compared to Emacs Lisp. How are you evaluating practicality?
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by igouy 2y ago
I transfer RAWs from camera to hard-drive and rename the files with that transfer date asap (as a matter of preservation). Unless there was some time sensitive event, I might not look at them for weeks. Then I'll discard nine in ten.
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by igouy 2y ago
> … because why not. You answered your own question — because you'd "give [yourself] a headache of 4000 photos with dozens of near identical shots to sift through". It isn't the dollar-cost; it is the attention-cost.
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by igouy 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400572
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by igouy 2y ago
> You didn’t have any of that 30 years ago. "Ubiquitous Applications: Embedded Systems to Mainframe" "To support a variety of platforms, Smalltalk uses a virtual machine approach to portability that allows applications to
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by igouy 2y ago
And when we look at that (proprietary Cincom Smalltalk) approach we find "simple mechanisms for spawning multiple running copies of the image and using those to perform various tasks in parallel" and "Objects are marshaled be
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by igouy 2y ago
Here's Alan Kay lavishing praise minute 54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=634s on "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" https://www.adamtornhill.com/reviews/amop.htm
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by igouy 2y ago
and the very next sentence Alan Kay said was: "So, the important thing here is that I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk … Part of the message of OOP was, that as complexity starts becoming more and more important, architec
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by igouy 2y ago
No. As-far-as I can see those comments are unhelpful to the point of being evasive.
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by igouy 2y ago
By "support for parallelism" do you mean invoke multiple VMs and use sockets or shared memory?
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by igouy 2y ago
Do you agree with them that "implementations which really compile Python have to be able to handle some thread suddenly modifying something out from under another thread"? Would you say that's also true of Smalltalk implement
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by igouy 2y ago
Here's a Go program and a C# program. Please explain your comment — https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
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by igouy 2y ago
> I generally look at a given benchmark there Which? Just curious. Some-of the spectral-norm programs seem quite similar: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
Where were they "debunked" ? Please share.
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by igouy 2y ago
now direct https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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