At 05:59 PM 10/6/98 -0400, Mehrdad Jahansoozi wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Apparently, There is a confusion between JIT compiler, and JIT virtual
>machine( VM ).
And this isn't helping.
The JIT is not the Java compiler. It is the "just in time" compiler which
is also platform-specific and actually processes your classes at runtime to
improve the efficiency of execution. The JIT on OS/2 does an excellent
job. Java code executes very quickly (once its loaded). There is a hit in
load time and the line numbers are lost in exception reports but things
like compression/decompression utilities get a great boost.
>I was looking for a linux ( VM ) and I thought clarify Java classes
>need ( VM ) to run.
>VM is platform specific.
It is true, the VM is a platform-specific, Java-bytecode interpreter.
>A compiler is what creates Java classes from xxxxxxx.java files.
>I compile my java files in NT , and I need VM in Linux to run them on
>Linux.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mehrdad
In spite of the numerous question marks in the subject line, this post
doesn't read like a question. I hope my response doesn't read like an answer.
Douglas Toltzman
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