>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> A few short & sweet reasons see >> http://fpl.cs.depaul.edu/cpitcher/se573/lectures/lecture-07.html#slide013 Ben> So its an optimisation (and therefore optional), right? Yes. Though in practice it is probably necessary to get acceptable performance. Without a verifier you must track the types of everything on the stack and in local variables (if you have a verifier you don't need to do this), and do assignability checks on arguments to all method calls, qualifying reference for a field lookup, etc. Tom
