Re: JVM as UNCOL, was ANDF/TDF

Sunil Kumar Anand <asunil@csa.iisc.ernet.in> writes:


>Yes,everything can be ported to JVM.But the important point to be
>noted is how good rather bad the efficiency of the programs will
>be.Most of the times it happens that u r spoiling the efficiency of
>the language which u r porting to JVM.


Actually, that point is not so important now. The issue which is more
important these days, as machines continue to get faster, is how good
or bad the efficiency of the *programmers* will be.


If you can get good interoperability with existing code on your target
platform, then compiling to JVM or CLR may well be a good choice, even
at the expense of program efficiency, because access to a large set of
existing high-level components and libraries can significantly increase
programmer productivity.


However, getting good interoperability is a lot easier said than done;
it requires considerable effort above and beyond just writing a compiler
that targets the JVM or the CLR.
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