On 11/10/2007, Neal Gafter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/10/07, Patrick Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/11/07, Neal Gafter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > My pet peeve is arithmetic. In the JVM, you either get efficiency and > > > > Neal > > > > Would the work from the Java Grande group apply, or is there other > > relevant research? > > I'm not aware of any work on improving the performance/correctness > tradeoff of integral arithmetic on the Java platform. If you're > generating byte-code for the Java VM, you have to choose between good > performance but limited precision with silent overflow or poor > performance but flexible precision. The general problem was "solved" > long ago, including in the StrongTalk system that was a predecessor to > HotSpot. Unfortunately those results have not been applied to the Java > platform. >
Any other cools features from StrongTalk that haven't made it into the JVM yet? StrongTalk, from what I've been able to find about it (and of that, the stuff that doesn't go completely over my head), sounds awesome. James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" 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/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
