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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Digitalk... The end...
Message-ID: <1995Feb26.124311.1513@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 95 12:43:11 GMT
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tgt@lanl.gov (Thierry G. Thelliez) writes:

>2- I also do understand that VisualAge is still poorly tuned and that
>Digitalk is in advance on Windows platforms but I would like some info
>about
>IBM plans in this direction. 

IBM's Smalltalk is a bytecode interpreter, Digitalk (and PPS) compile
to native machine code. 

IBM's smalltalk can make better performance for GUI applications,
because they use a widget set that is written in C, where Digitalk and
PPS use foreign routines for raw drawing, but the construction of
widgets is done in Smalltalk.

Martin
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