%0 Conference Paper %1 Ingalls:1997:oopsla %A Ingalls, Dan %A Kaehler, Ted %A Maloney, John %A Wallace, Scott %A Kay, Alan %B OOPSLA '97: Proc. 12th ACM SIGPLAN Conf. on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications %C New York, NY, USA %D 1997 %I ACM Press %K imported thesis %P 318--326 %R 10.1145/263698.263754 %T Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself %X Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to. debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks.Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object; a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers; efficient bulk-mutation of objects; extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling; and real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk. %@ 0-89791-908-4

@inproceedings{Ingalls:1997:oopsla, abstract = {Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to. debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks.Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object; a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers; efficient bulk-mutation of objects; extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling; and real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk.}, added-at = {2017-03-16T11:50:55.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ingalls, Dan and Kaehler, Ted and Maloney, John and Wallace, Scott and Kay, Alan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/212222981b1e48420b2b65b64ba0e2235/krevelen}, booktitle = {OOPSLA '97: Proc. 12th ACM SIGPLAN Conf. on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications}, doi = {10.1145/263698.263754}, interhash = {6e49e96db34ff520977a798e4aaa3ef3}, intrahash = {12222981b1e48420b2b65b64ba0e2235}, isbn = {0-89791-908-4}, keywords = {imported thesis}, location = {Atlanta, Georgia, United States}, owner = {Rick}, pages = {318--326}, publisher = {ACM Press}, timestamp = {2017-03-16T11:54:14.000+0100}, title = {Back to the future: the story of {Squeak}, a practical {Smalltalk} written in itself}, year = 1997 }