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		mprovost on March 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amber Smalltalk 0.10 released A sentence I never though I'd see 10 (or even 5) years ago: "It's compiled to JS, so I expect it to be fast."

klibertp on March 13, 2013 | [–]

Haha :) I was thinking "fast in comparison with a Smalltalk virtual machine implemented in JS" - but you're right in that JS got ridiculously fast compared to how it was a few years back.

groovy2shoes on March 13, 2013 | [–]

Even today, I never thought I'd see that sentence. Speed is relative, I suppose.

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