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Over time, various implementations ("dialects") of Smalltalk have appeared, some of which target different audiences and/or focus on particular applications.
Their internal implementation (evaluation mechanism) may also differ radically, from bytecode interpretation, just-in-time compilation, dynamic optimizing recompilation to cross-language translators (Smalltalk-to-C, Smalltalk-to-JavaScript, Smalltalk-to-Java). There are also systems which use a mix of static
Dialects differ in their class libraries, although a common subset exists which is ANSI standardized. Some class libraries are huge, containing 100k+ methods in the base system alone, others are minimalistic.
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