I agree, I think if JVM can extends current scope possibilities, and support to work with RAW memory, will be a very good advantange.
Regards, Ricardo -----Original Message----- From: Will Pugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mi�rcoles, 11 de mayo de 2005 9:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I hope the JVM implements most using Java itself For most applications I would agree. GC is a pretty good way to go, it has a number of good properties such as fast allocation, pretty decent object grouping in many cases, pretty fast, etc. However, you still can't work with raw memory, e.g. allocating blocks of memory for working with many of the same objects, moving objects around in physical memory, physically changing vtables for exisiting Java Objects (potentially useful for some optimizations). A JVM has more to do than just turn bytecode into native code, it also needs to manage memory, changing already JITed machine code, potentially changing existing object layouts/vtables. --Will
