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===Performance=== Self VMs achieved performance of approximately half the speed of optimised C on some benchmarks.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://research.sun.com/jtech/pubs/97-pep.ps |title=Design and Implementation of Pep, a Java Just-In-Time Translator |last1=Agesen |first1=Ole |journal=Theory and Practice of Object Systems |volume=3 |issue=2 |date=March 1997 |pages=127β155 |doi=10.1002/(SICI)1096-9942(1997)3:2<127::AID-TAPO4>3.0.CO;2-S |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061124224739/http://research.sun.com/jtech/pubs/97-pep.ps |archive-date=November 24, 2006 |url-status=dead|url-access=subscription }}</ref> This was achieved by [[just-in-time compilation]] techniques which were pioneered and improved in Self research to make a high level language perform this well.
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