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BrouHaHa- A portable Smalltalk interpreter

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 22, Issue 12

Pages 354 - 365

https://doi.org/10.1145/38807.38839

Published: 01 December 1987 Publication History

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BrouHaHa is a portable implementation of the Smalltalk-80 virtual machine interpreter. It is a more efficient redesign of the standard Smalltalk specification, and is tailored to suit conventional 32 bit microprocessors. This paper presents the major design changes and optimization techniques used in the BrouHaHa interpreter. The interpreter runs at 30% of the speed of the Dorado on a Sun 3/160 workstation. The implementation is portable because it is written in C.

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BrouHaHa- A portable Smalltalk interpreter
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
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    1. Compilers
      1. Interpreters
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 22, Issue 12

Dec. 1987

493 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

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DOI:10.1145/38807

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Richard L. Wexelblat

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OOPSLA '87: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
December 1987
493 pages
ISBN:0897912470
DOI:10.1145/38765
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