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From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: java status and
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Can someone explain why it's so hard to port new versions of JDK?

K. J. Koster wrote:

> The source code to the JDK is some 25 megs of a mix of C, shell scripts,
> assembler and makefiles. You need all of this to work to get a JDK. I think
> that's taxing enough for any OS without Sun specifying others as well. :-)

Ok, but why haven't they done the "obvious" thing of having all the C
and assembler down in the VM, with the rest in Java, and with new
versions arranged so that you can, if you want, keep using the same
VM and just put in the new Java code?

-- Jeff

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