Re:Vanessa Freudenberg's SqueakJS Paper Wins ACM Sigplan Mos...
by mpweiher on Thursday November 14, 2024 @05:27PM
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Don, love your Postscript work!
> One of my favorites, up there with the original "Self" papers.
Interesting. Why?
I mean, you just implement a bytecode interpreter in JS and run that.
> layering the Smalltalk VM on top of the JavaScript VM has worked out quite well
How has this worked out well?
The VM described is ~100 times slower than the already not so super-fast Squeak bytecode interpreter. The only reason this works at all is that machines today are ridiculously fast.
It pains me that we waste all this incredible performance on ridiculous amounts of layering.
> One of my favorites, up there with the original "Self" papers.
Interesting. Why?
I mean, you just implement a bytecode interpreter in JS and run that.
> layering the Smalltalk VM on top of the JavaScript VM has worked out quite well
How has this worked out well?
The VM described is ~100 times slower than the already not so super-fast Squeak bytecode interpreter. The only reason this works at all is that machines today are ridiculously fast.
It pains me that we waste all this incredible performance on ridiculous amounts of layering.