From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-04-09T03:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

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On 08 Apr 2005, at 11:19, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Eric,
>
> EH> On 08 Apr 2005, at 03:39, Lothar Scholz wrote:
>
> EH> You missed the second to last sentence, "... the cached target and 
> some
> EH> checking information is included inline with the dynamically 
> translated
> EH> methods."
>
> EH> This can be a big boost because you don't need to look up the 
> method or
> EH> even dispatch to it anymore, its right there where it needs to be.
>
> No i did not miss it, it says that this is _NOT_ implemented in squeak,
> only in the commercial VM's which i pointed out are still extrem
> expensive for all of us who use it for some scripts in there
> companies.
>
> So i doubt that the Squeak Engine can do much better then YARV when
> both use the same technologie (at least for message calling)

The above documentation is, in part, wrong.

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html

See the last paragraph of Smalltalk to C Translation.

See also the last paragraph of Performance and Optimization.

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