From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-04-08T11:04:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

In article <20050407220145.GI23956@garnet.tc.umn.edu>,
Thomas E Enebo  <enebo@acm.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005, Lothar Scholz defenestrated me:
>> 
>> Yes maybe its possible to transfer part of the language (all?) into an
>> smalltalk VM. But you can never get all the binary extensions to work,
>> an emulation layer would kill all your speed benefits if possible
>> at all. So maybe you should simply announce a ruby branch called SmallRuby,
>> since this would not have so much todo with the current ruby anymore.
>
>  OTOH, if it is 30x faster and makes an alternate implementation of socket

I'm very skeptical about the 30x faster claim.

Phil