Re: Objects in a VM

2001-01-11 Thread Joi Ellis
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote: > The short answer is no. There is no concept of memory and no concept of > a VM in Java. So you can't go rummaging around memory looking for > things, and (basically) you can't ask the VM to do anything except > execute bytecodes. > > The longer a

Re: Objects in a VM

2001-01-11 Thread Vladimir G Ivanovic
"p" == pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: p> Is there a way to ask the VM if there is an instance of an Object p> already in the VM and get a copy of that instance? The short answer is no. There is no concept of memory and no concept of a VM in Java. So you can't go rummaging around memory