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- From: aa421@Freenet.carleton.ca (Michael Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Questions on GNU Smalltalk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181445.8193@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- Reply-To: aa421@Freenet.carleton.ca (Michael Wilson)
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:14:45 GMT
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- In a previous article, wwm@ef5003.efhd.ford.com (Bill Meahan) says:
- >1) What's the status of Smalltalk 1.2 (or later)? Archie shows entries
- > for smalltalk-1.2 at a couple of European sites, but the "canonical"
- > site (prep.ai.mit.edu) only has version 1.1.1.
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- Why bother? GnuST is useless. On the benchmark suite I ran it was
- more than THIRTY TIMES slower than the slowest commercial smalltalks.
- This makes it unusable for anything but extremely toy applications.
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- McQ
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- Michael Grant Wilson (McQ)
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