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From: bretts@fred.xilinx.com (Brett Stutz)
Subject: Re: Self (Was: Re: Smalltalk in CS 1)
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In article <patrick_d_logan.160.000F8CCF@ccm.jf.intel.com>,
patrick_d_logan@ccm.jf.intel.com (Patrick D. Logan) writes:

|> 
|> Is anyone else who attended OOPSLA '94 as tired as I am of seeing
|> Self put up 
|> on an almighty pedestal?
|> 

It could be that something really important is going on there. Adele
Goldberg certainly
got my attention when she recommended attending the Self demo.

It would be interesting to see some real, large-scale systems
implemented in Self.

This year's focus was on how the Self group had taken ParcPlace's
dynamic compilation a step
further by recompiling frequently used methods with an optimizing
compiler.  I'd like to see
some research (or maybe even a PP product) that adds this second level
of dynamic compilation.

I'd also like a relatively unbiased account of why Self is (perceived
as) faster than
Smalltalk.





-- 
Brett C. Stutz
Staff Engineer and Object Wrangler
Xilinx 
Opinions are mine, not those of my employer.
