From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 9 10:37:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04263 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA04258 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05061; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:34:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708091734.KAA05061@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: generic compiling programming language? To: perlsta@sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:34:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Alfred Perlstein" at Aug 9, 97 11:19:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I know C is 'portable' but it still requires some major hacking to get > programs working on various OSes, and Java can be used/compiled almost > everywhere, although i think it requires a graphical display (right?) > and it is pretty slow and not a good choice for many intesive > applications. > > Why isn't there a "Java" that is not interpreted? but could be easily > cross compiled for any machine? > > Or is everyone hiding something from me? :) http://www.oasis.leo.org/java/00-index.html "Machines, browser, and viewer" Look for "Kaffe" and other JIT's. A JIT is a Just In Time compiler for JAVA. It converts JAVA to native code on the fly. There are also translators (to C/C++) that you can actually use to translate JAVA to a compilable language (JUMP, a JAVA "compiler" for US Robotics Pilot palmtops, works this way). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.