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 -- James A. Robertson Product Manager (Smalltalk), Cincom jarober at mail.com <Talk Small and Carry a Big Class Library>
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