Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!twl From: twl@brunix (Ted "Theodore" (W) Leung) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Guthery slams OOP in latest DDJ Message-ID: <21685@brunix.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 04:11:42 GMT References: <2664@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <32016@cci632.UUCP> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: twl@boojum.UUCP (Ted "Theodore" (W) Leung) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 12 If you look in Colewell's paper in the Aug 1988 ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, you'll find an excellent analysis of what really slowed the 432 down. Mostly, it was a bad compiler, few register, and narrow buses (these last two features of what the fabrication technology could bear). If he'd like to beat up on O-O implementations, he should pick on Dave Ungar's SOAR processor or Self compiler, to be fair... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet/CSnet: twl@cs.brown.edu | Ted "Theodore" Leung BITNET: twl@BROWNCS.BITNET | Box 1910, Brown University UUCP: uunet!brunix!twl | Providence, RI 02912 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com