[jvm-l] Re: Fan Programing Language

2008-04-20 Thread Iulian Dragos
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Brian Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... A primary goal of Fan is enable writing software which is portable between the JVM and CLR. To give you an example, we bit off writing our our own DateTime and TimeZone handling to ensure exact portability b/w the

[jvm-l] Re: Fan Programing Language

2008-04-20 Thread Brian Frank
If you're in the Bay Area or are going to be at JavaOne, maybe we can talk as well. There may be interesting things to be done with your work and the work we're doing with lift. I'm hoping to get to JavaOne, in which case it would be great to get together. There is lots of opportunity for

[jvm-l] Re: Fan Programing Language

2008-04-20 Thread Jon Harrop
On Sunday 20 April 2008 14:50:25 Jon Harrop wrote: Running the SciMark benchmark on my 32-bit WinXP Athlon64 X2 4400+ 2Gb RAM machine: Sun JDK 6: 385 .NET 3.5: 367 Here .NET is 5% slower than the JVM. I hadn't actually noticed that the .NET port of SciMark was written by a Java