From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T02:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Porting from other Langs (Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?)

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Peter Kwangjun Suk wrote:

> --Peter Kwangjun Suk
>
> (P.S. Someone mentioned cryptographic algorithms.  At one time the
> VisualWorks 5i implementations of some block ciphers (like DES) were
> running 3% *faster* than RSA Data securities' DLLs in C.  Yes, that's
> right, 3% faster than the same algorithm in C.  And these were pure
> Smalltalk implementions.  Just shows what you can do with great
> generational GC, good design, and a great JIT VM.  I happen to be
> working on running Ruby on Smalltalk VMs.)
>
Can you give an update on this project? I remember you described the
general idea some time back but don't remeber the details. I'd love to see
this happen...

Regards,

Robert