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From: an397723@anon.penet.fi (The Unknown Ranger)
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Date: Thu,  5 Oct 1995 14:49:30 UTC
Subject: Smalltalk compiled?
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>Is it compiled?  Yes.  It's compiled from source to bytecodes.  The
>difference between Smalltalk and languages like C, C++, FORTRAN, etc.
>is that the translation to native code occurs dynamically at run-time.

Does this mean that Smalltalk bytecodes are p-code?  How does PP get the 
same image to run on different machines? The runtime interpreter that's 
specific to each machine?
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