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From: knight@mrco.carleton.ca (Alan Knight)
Subject: Re: That 15,000:1 speedup: how real? [code included]
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In <435g1q$qbc@news.iastate.edu> rhawkins@iastate.edu (Rick Hawkins) writes:

>>Aha! You didn't mention that you were using GNU Smalltalk. It's been
>>known to have, um, suboptimal performance. In fact this is rather like

>It's the only smalltalk available, thoguh.  The student version of

VisualWorks runs on Alphas. They have very good academic licensing
arrangements.

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