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10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 | |
| Subject: | Primitive types are needed, but need not prohibit first-class types | |
| Date: | 2002-08-06 05:27:23 | |
| From: | davecb | |
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Response to: Primitive types are needed!
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Actually smalltalk used a simple mechanism to make operations fast: they started out running the "primitive" code (ie, machine code), but if it could not handle one of the cases, faulted into a more general interpreted code-block.
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