Some of the benchmarks in this repository use the SOM class library, which was contributed to by the people listed below.
SOM was originally implemented at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in 2001/2002. The implementation of SOM was done by Jakob Roland Andersen, Kasper Verdich Lund, Lars Bak, Mads Torgersen, and Ulrik Pagh Schultz. They also wrote the original versions of the SOM Smalltalk libraries, test suites, and benchmarks, that are (in extended versions) bundled with SOM.
SOM was used by Michael Haupt in courses on virtual machines at Lancaster University and Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (Germany) in VM courses in 2006. During that time, some changes were applied to SOM by Michael Haupt and Sebastian Kanthak.
SOM was later used for various research projects by Stefan Marr.