> it's hard not to get away from the impression that > additional features have been hacked in over the years [..] > in response to the vagaries of coding > fashions
yes, #208 made me wonder if the JVM could go the way of the language imagine the state of our own health if "backwards compatibility" meant that cells could never die -we could only grow new cells until growth became unsustainable perhaps a better solution in the long run would be support for running java (and thus java libraries) on Parrot?? that said, why does the da vinci machine ever have to merge? -could the java platform involve two vm's, relatively optimised for static and dynamic languages?? that said, why stop at two? -the pypy project seems headed for "a vm for every occasion" -going as far as "make a vm for this one program" (aka a compiler) pete F --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
