On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > 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. The Smalltalk VM was fast for its time and it's even faster now. Too bad we have to reinvent the wheel just be able to put a new badge on it and sell it again, along with training courses. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010925/eca48923/attachment.pgp