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CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 5955 days AGO

High-performance Smalltalk implementation.

"Perhaps the most striking difference between the Strongtalk system and other Smalltalk systems is performance. The Strongtalk system is not only far faster than any other Smalltalk system (and it is hardly tuned at all), but it is faster in ways that can significantly improve the way that Smalltalk programmers write code. This is because it dramatically reduces (and often completely eliminates) the cost of most message sends and blocks. This allows programmers to write even the most performance critical code in as finely-factored a way as they please. For example, accessor messages for instance variables, and custom control structures (using blocks), can be used universally."