On 12/18/2011 1:14 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
quote: "... I find this an odd statement because the Java VM is written in C,
so therefore it is on the same or fewer platforms than C. ..."
Means a VM written in 100% C code, which is not the case for the VMs I have
listed. Some of them the only C code is to provide direct access to the
hardware via JNI, even the JIT and Garbage Collector are written in Java.
If there is any C at all, it implies the existence of C on that platform, making
the incidence of Java <= the incidence of C.
