Back to the future: The story of Squeak, A practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997)
| Venue: | In Proceedings OOPSLA ’97, ACM SIGPLAN Notices |
| Citations: | 154 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ingalls97backto,
author = {Dan Ingalls and Dan Ingalls and Ted Kaehler and Ted Kaehler and John Maloney and John Maloney and Scott Wallace and Scott Wallace and Alan Kay and Walt Disney Imagineering},
title = {Back to the future: The story of Squeak, A practical Smalltalk written in itself},
booktitle = {In Proceedings OOPSLA ’97, ACM SIGPLAN Notices},
year = {1997},
pages = {318--326},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object; a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers; efficient bulkmutation of objects; extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling; and real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk. Overview Squeak is a modern implementation of Smalltalk-80 that is available for free via the Internet, at
