An efficient implementation of SELF a dynamically-typed object-oriented language based on prototypes

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David Ungar · Integrated Systems Solutions (United States)

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We have developed and implemented techniques that double the performance of dynamically-typed object-oriented languages. Our SELF implementation runs twice as fast as the fastest Smalltalk implementation, despite SELF's lack of classes and explicit variables.

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Logic, programming, and type systems Formal Methods in Verification Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

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DOI: 10.1145/74877.74884

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An efficient implementation of SELF a dynamically-typed object-oriented language based on prototypes

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