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- From: liblit@cs.psu.edu (Benjamin R. Liblit)
- Subject: Re: Questions on GNU Smalltalk
- In-Reply-To: aa421@Freenet.carleton.ca's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:14:45 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:01:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.181445.8193@freenet.carleton.ca>,
- aa421@Freenet.carleton.ca (Michael Wilson) writes:
-
- > Why bother [using GNU Smalltalk]? GnuST is useless. On the benchmark
- > suite I ran it was more than THIRTY TIMES slower than the slowest
- > commercial smalltalks.
-
- I have a different angle on this than you do. As an unfunded
- undergraduate CS student, benchmarks are measured in units of money,
- not time. And according to *my* test suite, Gnu Smalltalk blows the
- others away, to the tune of multiple hundreds of hard-earned dollars.
-
- So is this the old "you get what you pay for" cliche? Perhaps. All I
- know is Gnu Smalltalk works, and if I run out to get a copy with two
- pennies in my pocket, I've still got a Lincoln duet when I'm done.
-
- Commercial Smalltalk implementations are thirty times faster? Cool.
- Want to buy me a copy for my birthday? :-)
-
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