Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java processors Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:26:58 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 24 Message-ID: <9diev791cc84tsljqusgl14shpseba19o7@4ax.com> References: <5f101d00-4bc9-4750-939c-cd53605bfa0e@googlegroups.com> <4ff6318d$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: K2Qzzs3EAqXk5RLzfhxcSw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15841 On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:13:00 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >If you just dove in and started >interpreting you might be running more slowly, but you'd have a >head start That is just what JITs do. It is only after a while they have gathered some stats to they decide which classes to turn to machine code. The astounding thing is they stop the interpreter in mid flight executing a method, and replace it with machine code and restart it. That to me is far more impressive than walking on water. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Why do so many operating systems refuse to define a standard temporary file marking mechanism? It could be a reserved lead character such as the ~ or a reserved extension such as .tmp. It could be a file attribute bit. Because they refuse, there is no fool-proof way to scan a disk for orphaned temporary files and delete them. Further, you can't tell where the orhaned files ame from. This means the hard disks gradually fill up with garbage.