On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Mukesh Motwani wrote: > Thanks to all of you who replied to my question regarding the best IDE available. I >ahve more questions. > > 1. I am working on .NET platform and trying to draw comparison between JVM and CLR. > I dont understand what makes JVM so different from CLR that applets can be run in >browsers using JVM whereas > .NET has no such support. I am aware that JVM doesnt allow pointers and thats one of >the major differences between JVM and .NET. Are there any websites which give more >details to the internals of these black boxes?
More significant than pointers is the JVM's security policy management. I could be wrong, but I don't think .NET has an equivalent. > 2. I was also wondering how easy or difficult it is to make changes to these Virtual >Machines so that I can modify it to make it work on an embedded system. Considering that Java was designed to be embeddable? Hmm.... > > 3. How much truth lies in the myth that Java is slow? I have heard arguments and >read articles which claim that interpreting the byte code slows down the performance. >But then the same logic would apply to .NET but I havent heard anyone complaining >about .NET performance. Well, you yourself say it's a myth. Usually, Java's speed problems (in Swing, etc) can be traced to a bit of grey matter located between a chair and a keyboard. --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant --- You are currently subscribed to jdjlist as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
