re: performance. Dave Thomas' company Object Technology International developed Smalltalk technology for embedded systems with real time performance equal to C code. He sold OTI to IBM and his technology became Visual Age Smalltalk, Va-Java, and Eclipse with another division of IBM utilizing the embedded technology. Noury Bourqadi in France is doing some very interesting things with tiny VMs running on hardware for highly distributed mini-platform (cell phones) networks.
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:02:52 -0600, "Marcus G. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Prof David West wrote: > > Objects should be able to interact with bare hardware and not rely on OS > > or other environments - like the Smalltalk image. > > > With the resurgence of virtualized instruction sets, e.g. Java and .NET, > and good hardware/software support via VMware, Parallels, KVM, and Xen, > perhaps we can hope to see more high performance implementations of OOP > as it was meant to be.. The Right Thing running fast bare on the > hardware (almost). Just bought 16 GB of RAM for less than $2k. > > On a related topic, check out VMware Workstation 6 which now has trace > and replay. No more guessing how to reproduce conditions that led to a > model (or whatever) getting in to a weird state. Just back up! > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
