Documents and Papers
Most of the Strongtalk system documentation right now is imbedded in the release file, with imbedded Smalltalk code (smapplets) designed to be viewed through the Strongtalk HTML browser. So the first stop is the system tour and other documentation in the release.
However, we are trying to accumulate additional separate documentation on the system, and will keep an updated list here:
- Optimizing Dynamically-Dispatched Calls with Run-Time Type Feedback Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN `94: Describes the basic principles of type-feedback. This paper is for the Self system, not Strongtalk, but the basic technology is the same.
- Adaptive optimization for Self: Reconciling High Performance with Exploratory Programming Ph.D. thesis, Computer Science Department, Stanford University. This is even more detail on type-feedback for Self
- Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Languages with Polymorphic Inline Caches ECOOP '91 Conference Proceedings
- Mixins in Strongtalk (353Kb, postscript format)
- The Strongtalk VM bytecode format (11Kb, PDF)