From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T11:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

On Apr 7, 2005 10:04 PM, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

I might be skeptical, but if I voice my skepticism loud enough, I may
discourage those who might try (and may succeed).

So yeah... I think that 30x faster is quite possible ;-)

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)