Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
The Smalltalk-76 programming system design and implementation
POPL '78 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
POPL '81 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Creating efficient systems for object-oriented languages
POPL '84 Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
Efficient implementation of the smalltalk-80 system
POPL '84 Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing)
Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing)
TS: an optimizing compiler for smalltalk
OOPSLA '88 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
PLDI '89 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1989 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
An efficient implementation of SELF a dynamically-typed object-oriented language based on prototypes
OOPSLA '89 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
CLOStrophobia: its etiology and treatment
ACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
ACM SIGPLAN Notices - Best of PLDI 1979-1999
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QUICKTALK is a dialect of Smalltalk-80 that can be compiled directly into native machine code, instead of virtual machine bytecodes. The dialect includes “hints” on the class of method arguments, instance variables, and class variables. We designed the dialect to describe primitive Smalltalk methods. QUICKTALK achieves improved performance over bytecodes by eliminating the interpreter loop on bytecode execution, by reducing the number of message send/returns via binding some target methods at compilation, and by eliminating redundant class checking. We identify changes to the Smalltalk-80 system and compiler to support the dialect, and give performance measurements.