The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance SmallTalk System

by David Michael Ungar

This book documents two results that run counter to conventional wisdom about the Smalltalk-80 system. It shows that a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) can offer excellent performance for a system with dynamic data typing, and that automatic storage reclamation need not be time-consuming. The Smalltalk-80 system makes it possible to write programs quickly by providing object-oriented programming, incremental compilation, run-time type checking,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026221010X
• ISBN13: 9780262210102
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 250 Pages