>>That being said...doing so in a portable and platform independent way is >>actually HARDER in Java than in C (and by C I mean >>C/C++/Objective-C...whatever). Read the Sable paper... you'll see what >>I mean :-)
Why should it be so? I guess the platform dependent code emission code is err ... not platform independent anyway. Also, if the reference platform is for instance LLVM, or some other, off the shelf, low-level intermediate representation, then there is no more platform dependence to take care of at the JVM level (I suppose)... RB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:49 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [arch] VM Candidate : JikesRVM http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/ The problem of Java written JVM/JIT isn't one of performance. You can theoretically achieve the same performance (although I'm not 100% convinced, I'm partially there) especially if you're willing to "extend" Java for the purpose of writing Java. That being said...doing so in a portable and platform independent way is actually HARDER in Java than in C (and by C I mean C/C++/Objective-C...whatever). Read the Sable paper... you'll see what I mean :-) -Andy Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On May 18, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Ozgur Akan wrote: > >> I think everyone shall read this first http:// >> jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/info/overview.shtml . If performance will >> not be a problem then the product based on Jikes can be an >> alternative to Sun`s JVM. > > > Can we put the performance question to rest once and for all? > > geir > >> >> Personally Java is the language I feel myself most confortable and I >> think most of the people here feels the same. This is also an >> advantage which will shorten the development time if Java language is >> used. >> >> Ozgur Akan >> >> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >> >> >>> We've been talking about two threads of discussion, one working >>> with a C/C++ based VM, one w/ Java. >>> >>> Here's a Java one for discussion (just want to focus threads...) >>> >>> geir >>> >>> >> >> > -- Andrew C. Oliver SuperLink Software, Inc. Java to Excel using POI http://www.superlinksoftware.com/services/poi Commercial support including features added/implemented, bugs fixed.
