[self-interest] StrongTalk combined with Self?

Steven Shaw steven_shaw at iprimus.com.au
Thu Jan 8 18:14:34 UTC 2004


On Friday 09 January 2004 02:41, Jonas Bosson wrote:
> Just a thought.
>
> Could optional typing be a way to trim Self performance?
> I spotted the Strong Talk project:
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/projects/strongtalk/pages/

I think the Strongtalk people found that the typing was just for the 
programmer (to check contraints at compile time). The performance came from 
magical compiler technology. Pretty sure that the Strongtalk compiler ignores 
the declared type of things for producing code.

Steve.




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