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igouy
"We have demonstrated an implementation of Smalltalk that has no virtual machine, just native code (JIT or statically compiled)."
Rochus
> Algol on the Alto, like Smalltalk, had a VM

Was there really an Algol compiler on the Alto? Do the authors rather mix that up with BCPL (which isn't mentioned otherwise in the paper)?

igouy
Seems likely given the BCPL implementation was based on a VM.