Largest Provider of Commercial Smalltalk
Cincom is one of the largest commercial providers of Smalltalk, with twice as many customers and partners as other commercial providers.
Tom Nies
We take the performance needs of our customers seriously. Most developers find the performance of Cincom Smalltalk™ to be more than adequate, especially when compared to other dynamic languages.
In speaking to this point, Arden Thomas, the Cincom Smalltalk Product Manager, says:
“As your use of concurrency goes up linearly, the complexity goes up exponentially. Concurrency can be a nightmare. It’s easy to get in over your head. We have a solution to that problem. It doesn’t work everywhere … we didn’t reinvent the wheel. But we have a solution that people use to get a big bang for your buck. Concurrency gives you a lot of places to make a mess or get in over your head. This is a simplified way to get big gains with little pain.”
In illustrating these points, Arden spoke about concurrency and the use of mutli-core using MatriX (Polycephaly). In that presentation, Arden demonstrated the following points:
In summarizing his presentation, Arden says:
“MatriX: a framework you can add for basic concurrency. It’s really easy and not hard to change your code to use it and receive big benefits. The return on investment is huge! MatriX gives you a big bang for your buck and a huge amount of improvement.”