What price Smalltalk

Journal Article · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Computer; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.1987.1663359· OSTI ID:6832410

Ungar, D; Patterson, D

In anticipation of the promise of tremendous hardware advances, software researchers have fashioned expansive programming environments to improve programmer productivity. Even with the march of technology, exploratory programming environments such as Smalltalk-80 require such expensive computers that few programmers can afford them. With the hope of increasing that community, a research project at the University of California created a reduced instruction set computer for Smalltalk called SOAR, which stands for Smalltalk on a RISC. The authors are now able to estimate the performance implications of the Smalltalk-80 programming environment. In the next section the authors list the demands that Smalltalk-80 places on traditional computer systems, then present software and hardware ideas that answer those demands.

• Research Organization: Stanford Univ.
• OSTI ID: 6832410
• Journal Information: Computer; (United States), Journal Name: Computer; (United States) Vol. 20:1; ISSN CPTRB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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