This paper just received a Most Notable Paper award from the ACM SIGPLAN Dynamic Language Symposium, and it's a great paper. One of my favorites, up there with the original "Self" papers.
It describes how Vanessa's groundbreaking Smalltalk VM implemented in JavaScript runs historic Smalltalk images, and elegantly and efficiently integrates Smalltalk's garbage collector with JavaScript's.
This paper just received a Most Notable Paper award from the ACM SIGPLAN Dynamic Language Symposium, and it's a great paper. One of my favorites, up there with the original "Self" papers.
It describes how Vanessa's groundbreaking Smalltalk VM implemented in JavaScript runs historic Smalltalk images, and elegantly and efficiently integrates Smalltalk's garbage collector with JavaScript's.
I've written about her work and this paper previously on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917424