On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > >> JVM definitely sucks (stack machine with builtin slowness), but who cares >> about performance on these things. >> > > You are confusing interface with implementation. Dalvik is register-based. > I am not. The JVM is specifically designed as a stack machine. You may execute Java byte code on a register machine, but Java byte code is inferior even to GNU RTL. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120908/48ff79b2/attachment.html>