On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 04:14 PM, Carl Jokl wrote: > >> With all due respect JavaScript is Source Code and not byte code. >> Describing JavaScript as bytecode is nonsense. >> >> 1) It is not a binary format. >> 2) It is not close to machine code. >> > Who has ever said that bytecode must be binary? "Close to machine code" > doesn't ever make sense, the Java bytecode isn't. > Actually your last statement is not true. Except for the method dispatching stuff most of the jvm instructions are very close and often translatable into a single instruction on most cpus. Its no coincidence that the default(most used) size for math in the jvm is an int of 32 bits which is thenatural size for most cpus of today. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
