On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:34:40AM +1300, David McNab wrote: > > >> So you see, there is really *no* JVM that can be relied on. > > GB> Could this "mangling" be responsible for recent Fred crashes? > > I've kept pretty quiet of late, largely as a result of running out of > enthusiasm in light of the 0.4 transition hassles amongst other > things. > > But this feels like an appropriate time to toss in my 2c worth at the > risk of possibly offending some people. > > My thoughts on the matter? > Re-code the whole fucking thing in C or C++ !!! > And clean up the design in the process.
Or, OCaml .. http://www.ocaml.org/ It's GC'd, it's as fast as C, it's as cross-platform as Java. It can run as interpreted bytecode or compile to native binary. http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/craps.shtml > Wipe out the whole java CVS, and instead put up a few snapshot > tarballs to aid the C re-developers. There's no point in deleting the CVS tree. -tc
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