SJS wrote:
begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:19:37AM -0700:
People seem to insist on calling virtual machine binaries "bytecode".
AFAIK, Sun and Java started this trend.
Nope.
Blame Xerox.
Can I blame them for Windows too? :)
I believe the thinking was that the JVM binaries looked like a bunch of bytes.
Well, it's not source code, and it's not machine code either. It's
something in between.
Except when it comes to the Sun HotSpot compiler. It will make sections
of code actual native machine code in order to improve performance. A
very nice feature.
I had to mention it because, a while back when I did not know WTH the
thing was, I read most of the docs about it and said "Wow, Sun's Java
has come a long way since I last looked into it."
It put to rest in my mind many of the statements by people saying that
Java runs too slow because it's interpreted. Well, it's not 100%
interpreted.
PGA
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