The talk is from 1980, but right after that L Peter Deutsch and Allan Shiffman added dynamic compilation to Smalltalk (known as "JIT" these days) and made it a reasonable option on the new 68000 based workstations that were coming out. This technology was spun out as the company ParcPlace in 1987. So Dan's comment "... or make Smalltalk faster!" was actually prophetic.
