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From: eliot@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Eliot Miranda)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: info on byte-coded and other fast interpreters
Keywords: interpreter, Smalltalk
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Date: 24 Mar 91 16:41:30 GMT
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Smalltalk bytecode interpreters:

Berkely Smalltalk:
	%A David M. Ungar
	%A David A. Patterson
	%T Berkeley Smalltalk: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
	%B Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
	%E Glenn Krasner
	%I Addison-Wesley
	%C Reading, MA
	%D 1983
	%P 189-206
	%K Ungar83

Tektronix Smalltalk:
	%A Patric J. Caudill
	%A Allan Wirfs-Brock
	%T A Third Generation Smalltalk-80 Implementation
	%J Proceedings of OOPSLA'86
	%D November 1986
	%I SIGPLAN
	%V 21
	%N 11
	%K Caudill86

BrouHaHa Smalltalk
	Eliot Miranda
	"BrouHaHa - A Portable Smalltalk Interpreter"
	pp 354-365,
	Proceedings of OOPSLA '87, vol. 22, no. 12, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Dec 87.


How to improve on Smalltalk bytecode interpreters:
	%A L. Peter Deutsch
	%A Allan M. Schiffmann
	%T Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System
	%J 11th Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
	%D January 1984
	%P 297-302
	%K Deutsch84

(also check out my articles on dynamic translation to threaded-code
on comp.arch about a year to six months ago. summary, dynamic translation
of bytecodes to threaded-code can be fast, compact and portable)
-- 
Eliot Miranda			email:	eliot@cs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science	Tel:	071 975 5229 (+44 71 975 5229)
Queen Mary Westfield College	ARPA:	eliot%cs.qmw.ac.uk@nsf.ac.uk	
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