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Object, Message, and Performance: How they Coexist in Self
October 1992 (vol. 25 no. 10)
pp. 53-64
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David Ungar, Randall B. Smith, Craig Chambers, Urs Hölzle, "Object, Message, and Performance: How they Coexist in Self," Computer, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 53-64, October, 1992.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/2.161280,
author = {David Ungar and Randall B. Smith and Craig Chambers and Urs Hölzle},
title = {Object, Message, and Performance: How they Coexist in Self},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {25},
number = {10},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {1992},
pages = {53-64},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.161280},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - Computer
TI - Object, Message, and Performance: How they Coexist in Self
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SN - 0018-9162
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JA - Computer
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The Self programming language, which distills object-oriented computation down to a simple story based on copying prototypes to create objects, inheriting from objects to share their contents, and passing messages to invoke methods, is discussed. It is shown that Self's uniform application of the object-message paradigm gives programmers unusual flexibility. Unconventional optimizations can bring its peak performance to within a factor of two of optimized C's performance. Overviews of Self and its message passing performance are presented.

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David Ungar, Randall B. Smith, Craig Chambers, Urs Hölzle, "Object, Message, and Performance: How they Coexist in Self," Computer, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 53-64, Oct. 1992, doi:10.1109/2.161280
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