Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-31 Thread Francis ANDRE
e : "Raffaello Giulietti" >>> A : "Da Vinci Machine Project" >>> Copie à : >>> Objet : Oracle/Sun and the JVM >>> >>> >>> Perhaps they are only vendor promises, but from yesterday's webcast it >>> seem

Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Stepan Koltsov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 13:15, Francis ANDRE > wrote: >> >> So may be Oracle will allow/understand the necessity to have packed/zoned >> decimal as first class data type like integers as well as extended bytecode >> instructions for managi

Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread Stepan Koltsov
d of structs/value types and unsafe memory operations, not just decimals hacks. S. >> Message du 28/01/10 11:10 >> De : "Raffaello Giulietti" >> A : "Da Vinci Machine Project" >> Copie à : >> Objet : Oracle/Sun and the JVM >> >> >>

Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread John Rose
On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:10 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > Perhaps they are only vendor promises, but from yesterday's webcast it > seems that Oracle's strategy about Java is to fully embrace the efforts > for multiple languages on the JVM, among others. > > Am I too optimistic? I hope not. > > L

re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-28 Thread Francis ANDRE
hine Project" > Copie à : > Objet : Oracle/Sun and the JVM > > > Perhaps they are only vendor promises, but from yesterday's webcast it > seems that Oracle's strategy about Java is to fully embrace the efforts > for multiple languages on the JVM, among others. &

Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-28 Thread Raffaello Giulietti
Perhaps they are only vendor promises, but from yesterday's webcast it seems that Oracle's strategy about Java is to fully embrace the efforts for multiple languages on the JVM, among others. Am I too optimistic? I hope not. Long live the MLVM and the heroic engineers inside and outside Oracle/Su