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Java works fine on my Mac ... but you're right, and I know what you |
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mean. |
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It's a matter of having appropriate VM's. I suppose a pure |
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interpreter VM (like what we call the "classic VM") could be portable |
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to pretty much any system with just a recompile. But it's from the |
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classic VM that Java earned the slow reputation and we really don't |
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want to go back there. The Hotspot VM contains compiler(s) that |
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dynamically compile the bytecodes to native code, so of course that's |
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a big dependency on specific CPU's. |
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And beyond the VM, there's a bunch of other native code .. such as |
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network I/O .. such as AWT, DnD, Sound ... Some of that is rather CPU |
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independant. |
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It's certainly very possible that, in time, this process will result |
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in a widely portable Java implementation. Not tomorrow. Not next |
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week. Not next month. Our open sourcing process is ... well... |
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it's going to take awhile ... |
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- David Herron |
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On May 18, 2006, at 8:53 PM, David Gurvich wrote: |
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> Will sun java finally become platform independent? Java is |
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> supposed to have |
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> been write once, run anywhere, but anyone using a platform other |
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> than sparc |
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> or x86 knows that it's not.. |
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