On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 11:16 , Paris Lundis wrote: > so is MX at the core Java? I keep hear that's the gradual plan, migrate > away > from C...
CFMX is pretty much pure Java. That's why several folks have it running on Mac OSX. I don't know whether it was C or C++ in its earlier guise. > If that is true, how is macromedia addressing Java's great slowness and > the > infamous memory management/cleanup randomness that stops things? Those are pretty much myths about Java. CFMX is (almost) pure Java but outperforms CF5 which was written in C/C++. Java's memory management is much better these days - you're really only talking about garbage collection and time-distributed sweeps are pretty much the norm now to avoid the sudden... stop that used to be so characteristic of that sort of technology. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
