Introduction
How Strongtalk relates to Smalltalk-80
The Programming Environment
The Launcher
Hierarchy Browsers
Class Browsers
A Little Project- Adding a forward button to the HTML browser
Dealing with a typechecking error
The Virtual Machine and Performance
How Adaptive Optimization Works
A Micro-Benchmark
The Consequences of Adaptive Optimization on Coding Style. Examining the Inlining Structure
Examining Compilation and Controlling Compiled Code; The Inlining Database
Other Issues: Fast Floating Point and Debugging Support
The Type System: Integrating a Type System with Smalltalk
A Two-Page Introduction to the Strongtalk Type System
Mixins
The User Interface Framework
Conclusion- Where to go from here
More History on the Strongtalk Project