On 10 May 2012, at 14:03, H. Hirzel wrote:
Yes this is an interesting comparison, in particular if you add size and weight to the comparison.
Thank you Marcus, for the idea of doing the comparison putting the figures together.
And yes, 1000 times more RAM should make it possible to come up with a more easy to understand design for the object memory and VM.
Have you seen SOM (Simple object machine)? That's what you get if you go for simplicity for teaching. See http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/som/, it is originally coming from à rhus. It is a nice and clean VM, with little distracting complexity. Not fast of course... And, well, not Pharo compatible. (which one could count as a benefit, since it keeps complexity low) Would be interesting to hear what the Pinocchio folks think about it in terms of complexity. Best regards Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525