On 2020-04-26, at 08:41:24, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > On 4/25/20 2:56 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: >> I wonder when someone is going to write a javac that actually produces C >> code for the platform. Kind of like PL/asx ( I may have this acro wrong ) > > Modern Java VMs are about as efficient as can be, given the object model. > With the advantage of JIT compilation/optimization.
> That's why the notion of Java -> C compilers went away. > Is there any residual portability concern? But how portable is ANSI C? The gyrations of GNU configure make me wonder. The java samples at http://math.hws.edu/eck/js/mandelbrot/java/MB-java.html are splendid. They work alike on: MacOS, Linux (Intel and Raspberry π), and z/OS (output to JPEG; never got X11 client configured.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
