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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by lispm on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:04PM (#32430273)
> The earliest work in optimizing highly dynamic languages was done in Smalltalk

Hard to believe, given that optimizing native code compilers for Lisp were already available.

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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by twoodfin on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:16PM (#32431808)
I’ll accept “of the specific thread that led to HotSpot” as a qualification, sure.
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