On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:47:36 -0800, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
I've often thought Java bytecode was a complete joke. It doesn't deliver
any of its promises. You could tokenize Java source code, run the result
through an lzw compressor, and get the equivalent functionality in every
way.
Not true at all. Bytecode is semi-optimized, easier to manipulate with
(obfuscate, instrument, etc), JVM/CLR bytecode is shared by many languages
(Java, Scala/C#,F#) so you don't need a separate parser for each language,
and there is hardware that supports running JVM bytecode on the metal. Try
doing the same with lzw'd source code.
