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From: netcom.com!kira!davidjohn (David John Burrowes)
Subject: Questions re: QKS Smaltalk and Smalltalks in general
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 01:27:12 GMT
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I am a newbie to Smalltalk-land, and haven't seen a reference to a FAQ yet  
in this newsgroup, so I apologize if these are questions I shouldn't be  
asking.

Question 1: I know that quoting benchmarks is hard and inherently  
misleading.  Nevertheless, I haven't a clue about the speed of a  
compiled/whatever (i.e. at app delivery time) smalltalk program for the  
'average' system. That is, if a C program is rated at speed one (smaller  
number is faster), is the equivalent Smalltalk program 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, 100,  
10000?).  Again, I'm deliberately asking for generalities (though, if you  
have info about the QKS system, let me know)

The rest of my questions are more specifically about QKS Smalltalk systems  
on the Macintosh platform:

Question 2: I got a blurb from QKS showing some screen shots.  They had some  
strangely colored windows (kinda a pea-soup green in some places, and one  
window with a half dozen colors at least).  Is this the norm in their  
development system?  Can you turn it off?  Does the whole system conform to  
mac conventions this badly, or are the screen shots misleading?

Question 3: How large (both on the disk and in RAM) is a typical or a simple  
stand-alone application built with their system?

Thanks in advance!

david john burrowes

p.s. If you have the product and wouldn't mind answering some more mundane  
questions about it, could you drop me an email message at  
davidjohn@kira.net.netcom.com
