Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:49:38 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Jeff Dalton' <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: java status and Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB4@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear Jeff,
>
> > 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?
>
The VM is also new. New byte code compilers, new byte codes. Java is not a
mature language yet.
I'm sure Greg, Scott, and Bill are resusing many of the patches for 1.2.2 to
get 1.3.1 to work, so they don't have to start from scratch.
Kees Jan
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
[Steven Wright]
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