"Bruno Cabasson" <bru### [at] alcatelaleniaspacefr> wrote in message 
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> William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
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>> Bruno Cabasson wrote:
>> > -) What are the current langages supporting JIT? What are their
>> > performances?
>>
>> How about the Java runtime? Sun has already opened up the parts that
>> we'd actually need. (We have no use for the Java class libraries, and
>> once you strip those out the runtime binaries are only a couple
>> megabytes in size.)
>>
>> > -) What are the langages which are best cross-platform and 
>> > OS-independent?
>>
>> Some of the existing Open Source JVMs support more processors than Sun's
>> OpenJDK; at the same time, Sun's implementation seems to be better
>> optimized on those platforms that are supported.
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>> William Tracy
>> afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu
>
> Java provides many of what has been evocated (OO, modularity, JIT,
> platform/OS comptibility, etc ..). But how could we take advantage of it
> without ending with something too heavy?
>
> Java cannot be the choice for the rendering engine for obvious performance
> reasons, but it might be a good candidate for the language/syntax aspect,
> provided we can define some restrictions and rules. But I absolutely don't
> know what and how ... Alladin's lamp welcome! (


    Mr. Gena Obukhov springs to mind here for some reason.


     ~Steve~









>    Bruno
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