[geeks] Go Apple....

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:43:37PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

> instructions) that will be generated by the compiler.  Anyone who can
> do that with Java source code needs to take a vacation and drink more
> scotch.

It depends on what machine you are running that Java source code on.
It was supposed to be suprisingly easy to do for the original Java
chips that were floating around (but sadly weren't actually used for
the Sun Javastations), and also pretty easy to do for the various
academic Java chips developed.

But, it has so many layers that while going from the Java language to
say an assembler for Java byte-codes is easy than going from C++ to
and assembly.  But, going from Java to the native assembly requires
visualizing how the JIT would then translate the byte codes that were
easily imagined, which is a less simple task.


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd