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From: johnk@spasm.niddk.nih.gov (John Kuszewski)
Subject: Re: Can Smalltalk get smaller?  (was Re: Advantages of Smalltalk over 
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:56:36 GMT
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In article <1996Feb26.220038.26236@slc.com>, aland@servio.slc.com (Alan Darlington) writes:
|> davidsutra@aol.com (DavidSutra) writes:
|> > <snip> Small is beautiful.  <snip> Smalltalk is perfect for Avatars, etc.
|> > but it's too fat. It's that simple. What we need (instead of Java) is a
|> > better, faster, *smaller*, version of Smalltalk....
|> 
|> As far as I can tell, the only way to get a significantly smaller
|> memory footprint is to get rid of existing features.  Which ones
|> do you propose to eliminate?  (Hope you are flame-proof!!  :-)

Not true--Self has an agressive stripper that can bring executable
images down to a few hundred K.  Commerical Smalltalks need to get
features for speed and memory size that are as good as Self's.

Now when will that happen?

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