[sunkencity]

Good interesting video. Main theme is that it pays off to read research papers and try to use that stuff in the real world. Some interesting tidbits from Avi from the presentation:

* sun built java and self at the same time, self was an attempt to build a smalltalk that was more smalltalky than smalltalk, which ended up in that they made a very efficient dynamic method dispatch that was fast.

* There's no need for dynamically typed languages to be slow, because strongtalk has already solved that problem.

* The hotspot VM is actually the strongtalk vm, but crippled for fast dynamic dispatch because of the security model.

* There are now 3 really good and fast VMs for javascript making it very interesting.

* If a problem is hard, probably someone has a solution for it => research academic papers.