From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T00:33:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Strongtalk VM now open source

"Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@gmail.com> writes:

> On 9/11/06, Phil Tomson <rubyfan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Strongtalk is supposedly a very fast VM for Smalltalk.  Now it's
>> been released as open source.  Perhaps it would be possible to run
>> Ruby on it?  Or perhaps some ideas can be borrowed to make YARV
>> faster?
>>
>> http://www.strongtalk.org/
>
> Given the provenance (Dave Ungar's self group) at first glance this
> looks promising, probably more promising in the long run than a JVM
> implementation of Ruby.

... except the JRuby implementation 1) is there, 2) is founded, 3)
runs on a gazillion of platforms.  (AFAICS, they don't even manage to
compile their own Strongtalk source. ;-))

Strongtalk definitely needs a lot of work before it's useful to a
possible Ruby implementation.

But, sure, read the papers and see what can be done.

> Rick DeNatale
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