Hi, On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 21:40 -0400, Bob wrote: > 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.
Although simple interpreters aren't as speedy as some of the other execution models out there, the speed of some implementations (notably gcj) is comparable to other implementations. See for example: http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/ http://www.spindazzle.org/benchmarks/ Cheers, Mark
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