On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> 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...
Uh, no. (I thought that) Java bytecode (.class file) is compiled code
compatiable with the JVM, therefore it would run unchanged on a
theoretical physical JVM CPU.
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