Re: Web service on VMS

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

alt.comp.lang.java,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.vms

Date:

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:51:50 -0400

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Bob Koehler wrote:

It depends on what you're trying to do. I know folks who are
religiously opposed to interpretting byte code.

It took me a minute to parse that; I thought you meant opposed to interpreting
bytecode themselves, but I see now you meant opposed to running interpreted
bytecode on a JVM.

That would have to be a religious, well, at least a superstitious issue. I
can think of no rational reason supported by evidence to think that running
bytecode is always a bad idea. I don't know VMS (haven't used it in over a
quarter century), but on other platforms Java's performance is comparable to
and even sometimes faster than that of, say, C++ programs.

I don't know about HP's Basic on VMS either, but fifteen years ago I was with
a company where we wrote an interpreter for HP Business Basic that ran faster
on a 25 MHz 386 (with three simultaneous users in 2 MB RAM total and no
floating point hardware) than HP's own compiled version did on the HP 9000
mainframe.

For me Java on VMS and several other platforms as been a much
better solution than I though it would be.
(The JRE on an EV4 is not as slow as a I feared.)

Who wrote that version of Java? Does it do Hotspot?

--
Lew