On 2012-10-30, at 18:39, Jan Vrany <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/10/12 15:39, dimitris chloupis wrote: >> Hey Torsten and thanks for the reply. >> >> I am not here to recommend pharo to move to JVM. Rtalk author also >> mention this, moving a language to another platform like JVM is quite >> easy , > > I've spent quite some time playing with Java and JVM. I don't think in case > of Smalltalk language it would be exactly 'quite easy' to move > to JVM. > There are certain constructs, prevalent in Smalltalk codebase, that would be > tricky to implement *efficiently* on JVM. Non-local returns, > proceedable exceptions, class extensions, snapshotting to name some.
not to mention instance migration! (which might be circumvented in non-development mode)
