Musing out loud... [Why not Smalltalk?]

[James A. Robertson]

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, while
HotSpot was relatively lightweight.  The funny thing is, Sun had to do
a  lot of work anyway - optimizing tricks for Smalltak are not
equivalent 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

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James A. Robertson
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