Posted by ungar on Nov 07, 2010; 1:47am
URL: https://forum.world.st/RoarVM-The-Manycore-SqueakVM-tp3025321p3030523.html

 
Back when I did Berkeley Smalltalk (early 1980's), I fretted a lot about incremental performance improvements to the interpreter.
Every few days I was able to get another few percent, as I recall. Then Peter and Alan did the first OO JIT ([Deutsch-Schiffman '84])
and it was so much faster than BS, it became clear to me that I didn't want to spend any more of my time optimizing an interpreter
when I could be adding a simple compiler instead. But that's just own experience.

 - David


On Nov 6, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Michael Haupt wrote: