Hi, One last point. We're talking about a single if statement here, in a call which outputs to the screen. The overhead is miniscule.
Rob. On 4/5/06, Robert Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The word "pragmatic" springs to mind. FWIW, JamVM will print nothing > if no exception is pending. It didn't do this originally -- it blew > up with a SEGV. I changed it because a user reported an application > which didn't work with JamVM but it did with Suns VM (can't remember > which application, it was a long time ago). > > It's all very well bombing out with an assertion failure, but to the > average end-user it's still the VMs fault, especially if it works with > other runtimes (i.e. Suns). > > Rob. > > On 4/5/06, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Ellison wrote: > > > Understood -- my point is that "blowing up" and "corrupting internal > > > data structures" is not something you would do by design. > > > > Agreed. By using assertions you get the best of both worlds. > > Assertions are especially useful for detecting badly behaving > > JNI native code, which can otherwise result in very hard to > > track down errors. > > > > -Archie > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
