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[Jing Su]

> > Yes, and the processing overhead for an addition is about the same as for
> > a square root extraction.

An "I'm feeling Lucky" on google over "smalltalk performance overhead"
seems to provide a page with a simple micro-benchmark that refutes the
"add" overhead example.  Certainly it's not as fast as assembler, but
comparing it to the cost of square rooting seems to be much.
http://www.exept.de/sites/exept/onlineDoc/english/programming/STspeed.html

DISCLAIMER: I'm no language expert, I have no real-world experience with
Smalltalk, and I do not know the latest research in language
performance/correctness/tradeoff issues (citeseer seems to provide many
many links on this subject, though I haven't taken the time to wade
through it).


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