> Zitat von Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > - AFAIK, CIL seems to improve some of the Java shortcomings > > I'm curious. Has someone evidence for that?
The CIL bytecode removes the typing needed only for interpreting, and thus might be a bit more JIT friendly, and in general the requirement to interpret is not there, and never has been. I don't know what recent Java's change there though. I'm no VM technician, so I can't comment on how useful this really is. Microsoft was also more vocal from the start about supporting it to other languages, including from other classes of languages (e.g functional languages) from the start. While Sun tried to keep control, and keep JVM about Java. However that afaik has changed on the Java side too since. I think this has all been more intention and marketing that superiority on the CIL part. Just like they have been very vocal about possibilities for portability too, something they have never supported. Sometimes I think .NET is more about loosening Microsofts ties to PC and Intel, to allow them to pull off architecture migration stunts a la Apple, than it is about programming. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
