Re: [NTLK] Off-Topic Linux (PDA) Question

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 21:19:43 EST


on 30/10/01 18:58, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
[snip!]
> Sun has been threatening for a while to make a machine that conforms to
> the JVM specification - meaning that it would run Java code natively,
> without an emulation layer. Which would be cool for people (like me) who
> like Java. So if such a CPU existed, a JavaOS PDA would be rather zippy
> indeed.

In order to take advantage of that, however, you would have to compile your
Java code, going against one of the clamored advantage of Java of being able
to be portable. Going that road, you could say that C and even Pascal are
portable... But I think that in some cases, that would be a good alternative
to sluggishness of interpreted code...

-Laurent.

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elephantine adj.: Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and ignorance) and exceedingly hairy in source form. An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain). In extreme cases, hackers have been known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive proboscatory mime at the mention of the offending program. Usage: semi-humorous. Compare `has the elephant nature' and the somewhat more pejorative monstrosity. See also second-system effect and baroque.

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