On Tuesday 25 September 2001 09:23 am, you wrote: > In answer to someone else's question (again with the lack of history), yes, > Eclipse is written in Java. If I remember correctly, you seemed to think > that writing it in Java would be a bad idea. Would you mind explaining why > you think so? My heart belongs to Smalltalk, so I won't take offense to any > Java-bashing. :) > The problem is not the Java language, but the JVM. There are no JVM's that I have seen that are as speedy as any native language. It mostly has to do with the fact the hardware is completely unknown to the program, and only the JVM knows about it. Perhaps if someone could write a JVM as a kernel module (not just the Java Execicutable as done before) things might run a little faster, but not much. -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry.