[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 26, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> How about Sun's Hot Java. That was all java. It's been EOL'ed, and I 
>> was
>> looking for source code, but didn't find it. Binary versions (!) are
>> still available for download though...
>
> It was horribly slow.  As I recall, it didn't function all that well
> either.
>
> What about a real Java compiler?  I know that the purists hate that
> idea, but are there any real Java compilers?  Ones that spit out native
> code instead of JVM code?

   Well, I'm a purist, and I'd give my front teeth to have the Java 
community forget about the idea of virtual machines and go with 
all-native compilation. ;)

           -Dave

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