Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:38:11 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Mikhail Kruk' <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3CC@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear Mikhail,
>
> > HP has written an HP9000 emu that runs code faster than the
> > host it runs
> > on(!). I believe it's arstechnica.com that had an article
> > on this. Slashdot
> > carries a few references to articles, but I have no time to
> > search for them.
>
> I saw a benchmarking applet which runs 2.5 times faster under
> Internet
> Explorer under Virtual PC running on MacOS X than in the
> native appletveiwer running on the same MacOS X. There is something
> deeply disturbing about this.
>
Is there? Microsoft's Java VM has always been one of the best, if not the
very best. The MacOS X port is brand new.
Of course Microsoft had to go into that childish fight over world dominition
with Sun. Am I the only one who gets images of children squabbeling over
candy when they read articles about Microsoft and Sun? People don't actually
grow up. They just get bigger.
Kees Jan
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
[Steven Wright]
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