> > On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:20 AM, Robin Garner wrote: > >> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On Nov 1, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Robin Garner wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Actually my colleagues at ANU and I were remarking last week >>>> that all the recent discussion on the Harmony list (configure >>>> scripts, packed structs etc etc) were close to being proof that >>>> Java was the easier way to go. >>>> >>> >>> >>> C'mon... you still have to deal with that with a Java based VM >>> because you still need the bootstrap stuff... >>> >>> geir >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, but only in a tiny percentage of the code, only for a handful >> of API calls, and none of it performance critical. >> > > And all of it requiring configure scripts? :) > > geir
Actually probably little enough problematic code that you could write a separate version for every platform/compiler for comparable effort to writing the configure script. cheers
