Some attention DOES need to be paid to speed. If Harmony is consistently 3-5X slower than Sun (which it will be, if there's no JIT and no bytecode verifier and no ahead-of-time compiler), then many Java apps will simply be too slow to run on Harmony.

On May 10, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:

Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
Ben wrote:
Forgive my ignorance - why is this necessary?
A few short & sweet reasons see
http://fpl.cs.depaul.edu/cpitcher/se573/lectures/lecture -07.html#slide013

So its an optimisation (and therefore optional), right?

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