on 10/31/01 5:30 PM, David Orriss Jr at dave_at_davenet.net wrote:
> At 11:05 AM 10/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>> Huh? If you have a JVM CPU that can processes raw bytecode, sure, that'd be
>> fine, but AFAIK, the JRE still has to translate those bytecode into machine
>> code for a specific CPU.
>
> Only hotspot does that. The JRE itself does not.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but any Java expression needs to be translated in a
few machine code instructions, no matter how you look at it.
-Laurent.
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