> > Neko was designed to be a good mix between lowering the cost as much as > > possible while keeping a simple design and enabling enough highlevel > > features. > > There is more, i think you fail to credit your own achievement here. > > (a) unlike other VM, Neko was designed with functional > programming kept in mind. Most other VM focus on classes > and objects and aren't very good at FP. > > (b) after bootstrapping via Ocaml, Neko now bootstraps > itself with only simple C compiler pre-requisite. > This makes the system much easier to port and build than > most others IMHO. > > (c) By forcing himself to implement an ML compiler in Neko, > Nicolas rapidly identified weaknesses in the instruction > set and performance and fixed them before too many users > made it hard -- unlike, for example, the weak Java VM, > where proposed mods to support generics were not implemented > due to the huge number of old VM already installed. Sun didn't > do their homework. Nicolas has. > > (d) Additionally, Nicolas insists Neko is defined by its language > not the VM, retaining implementor flexibility which other > such systems lack. > > [see .. I do say positive things sometimes :]
Yes, and very good points that I completely agree with. Bob --- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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