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Musing out loud... [Why not Smalltalk?]
James A. Robertsonjarober at mail.com
Tue Apr 17 22:42:41 EDT 2001
Eric Clayberg wrote:>> "Piercarlo Grandi" <pg_nh at sabi.Clara.co.UK> wrote in message> news:yf366g3awne.fsf at sabi.ClaraNET.co.UK...> >> > Thus I find it a bit bizarre to imagine that "it took the Anamorphic> > team to pull them all together and prove that they worked in concert",> > because the Self group not only largely developed them, but they did> > that themselves (actually it was mostly just one guy for the> > Smalltalk-80 clone) and in the most straightforward way possible.>There's also this: Self took SCADS of memory to do it's thing, whileHotSpot was relatively lightweight. The funny thing is, Sun had to doa lot of work anyway - optimizing tricks for Smalltak are notequivalent to optimizing tricks for Java> Then explain why Sun bought Anamorphic and their HotSpot technology for> *several* tens of millions of dollars. If Sun already had all this in house,> they had no reason to buy HotSpot. Were you around when the Anamorphic team> was shopping HotSpot around to the highest bidder? Did you see their> technology in action? I think you are severely underestimating the> significance of what the Anamorphic/HotSpot team developed. Apparently Sun> did not...>> -Eric-- James A. RobertsonProduct Manager (Smalltalk), Cincomjarober at mail.com<Talk Small and Carry a Big Class Library>
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