"The Java language's portable and interpreted nature produces a highly dynamic and dynamically-extensible system. "
>From java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Interpreted.doc1.html Sun invented Java, and they say it is interpreted. Source code for any Java program is translated into a list of bytecodes, these machine-independent bytecodes are INTERPRETED on-the-fly into machine code for the specific hardware it is running on. Java is not a COMPILED language, it is an INTERPRETED language. There is some JIT compiling that goes on with some methods and classes in most applications, but for the most part most of the clock cycles taken up during execution of a Java program are taken up by intrepreting bytecode into machine code. A REAL compiled language like C++ is compiled from source code ONCE and ONCE ONLY into native binary machine code for the intended CPU hardware. This compiled binary is then what is run when the user runs the program. When you run a Java program, you are NOT just executing pre-compiled binary, you are sending bytecode to the Java VM, which then does a little JIT compiling of a few methods and classes but mostly interprets each bytecode element into binary machine code one byte at a time, just like BASIC. That's why most Java programs are ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE slower than compiled binaries from C++ or other true compiled languages. I STILL want to stream my lossless FLAC files to something other than softsqueeze, but it appears that there is nothing out there that will do this. -- milosz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ milosz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62652 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
