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Self's Compiler Technology

Compiler technology developed for the Self system

Self implementations have used novel optimization techniques to achieve execution speeds up to half that of optimized C (2-4 times faster than commercial Smalltalk systems), even though the pure nature of the language makes it difficult to compile efficiently.

Among the techniques are:

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See the bibliography for more papers on Self and its optimization techniques.

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