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Clément Béra
Personal blog · clementbera.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Clément Béra writes Smalltalk, Tips 'n Tricks, a personal blog at clementbera.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Clément Béra's posts as references on the OpenSmalltalk VM and Pharo, including the Spur memory manager, 64-bit immediate floats, and optimizing the bytecode interpreter.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Soulmate of yours here: https://clementbera.wordpress.com Lots of optimizations going on for OpenVM. https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm Interesting bit: VM is written in Slang and transformed into C then compiled. So you can livecode your VM. In the VM simulator.
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on “My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter”We can do it this was if needed. http://clementbera.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/optimizing-pharo...
Comment linking /2013/06/19/optimizing-pharo-to-c-speed-with-nativeboost-ffi/
on “Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood”They hesitate to include "Spur", a new memory manager in the VM. Check Clement Bera's blog post for more: https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/7-points-summar... This is the first step towards a 64bits VM (yay!)
Comment linking /2014/02/06/7-points-summary-of-the-spur-memory-manager/
on “Pharo 4.0 Released”Another quite similar technique from OpenSmalltalk: https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/64-bits-immedia...
Comment linking /2018/11/09/64-bits-immediate-floats/
on “Float Self-Tagging”