Back to the future in one week - Implementing a smalltalk VM in PyPy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5146 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 123-139

  Bolz, Carl Friedrich ^b   Kuhn, Adrian ^a   Lienhard, Adrian ^a   Matsakis, Nicholas D ^c   Nierstrasz, Oscar ^a   Renggli, Lukas ^a   Rigo, Armin ^a   Verwaest, Toon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

GARBAGE COLLECTION ALGORITHM; SMALLTALK; SMALLTALK 80;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 57049106858     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89275-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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