53 ;;Quote: Self programs run 5 times faster than other pure object-oriented languages and 2-3 times slower than optimized C

54 ;;Quote: a Self object consists of slots; a slot has a string name and any Self object)

54+;;Quote: Self parent slots are marked by '*' and searched if message not found

56 ;;Quote: Self compiles special-cased machine code on demand at run-time; multiple versions of machine code for one piece of source code; like Deutsch-Schiffman

59 ;;Quote: if a Self primitive rarely fails, the compiler delays compilation of the failure branch

59 ;;Quote: use message splitting to prevent the lose of type information when the control flow merges; allows compile-time lookup and in-lining

63 ;;Quote: dynamically bound messages allow methods to transcend the representation of the objects they manipulate

63+;;Quote: inheritance allows different objects to share methods without copying them