On Jan 11, 4:12 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> George Sakkis a écrit : > > > On Jan 10, 3:37 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > >> I fail to see how the existence of JIT compilers in some Java VM changes > >> anything to the fact that both Java (by language specification) and > >> CPython use the byte-code/VM scheme. > > > Because these "some Java VMs" with JIT compilers are the de facto > > standard used by millions; > > Repeating an argument doesn't make it more true nor more relevant. Once > again, this doesn't change anything to the fact exposed above. > > > the spec is pretty much irrelevant > > I mentionned this because this kind of choice is usually not part of the > language spec but of a specific implementation. Java is AFAIK the only > language where this implementation stuff is part of the spec. > > > (unless > > you're a compiler writer or language theorist). > > I thought it was quite clear and obvious that I was talking about points > relating to these fields. No it wasn't, and besides the OP is most likely interested in these as a simple user so the distinction between a spec and a de facto standard implementation (such as JDK for Java and CPython for Python) are almost pedantic if not misleading. We're not Lisp (yet ;-)), with five major implementations and a dozen of minor ones. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
