[Help-smalltalk] Re: GST on the JVM?

[Paolo Bonzini]

> In any case, it seemed like, respecting the license, that GNU Smalltalk 
> could be a source of much good code for such a system and its image. I 
> know right now GST is heavily tied to C etc.

Not only I cannot do anything against such a project (as long as the 
library is kept under GPL or LGPL), but it would be fun to see how it 
ends.  People have been doing something similar for JPython or JRuby.

It would have interesting features such as native threading, also.  But 
I'm not going to work on it.  It would not fix the worst problems of 
gst, including startup time and awful syntax.  It would gain bindings to 
the Java class library, but not necessarily to C libraries.  The only 
advantage would be native threading (but note that GST's current 
threading can be faster than Java threads, it just does not use MP 
hardware!) and a better GC.

Paolo