Re: Do we really need virtual machines?

Nicola.Musatti@ObjectWay.it (Nicola Musatti)
9 Oct 2004 22:32:01 -0400

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From: Nicola.Musatti@ObjectWay.it (Nicola Musatti)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Oct 2004 22:32:01 -0400
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References: 04-10-013 04-10-037 04-10-041
Keywords: VM
Posted-Date: 09 Oct 2004 22:32:01 EDT

Joan Pujol <joanpujol@gmail.com> wrote
[...]
> And if you use for example C++ , that is possible the most standard
> language, with standard libraries you have more problems with
> portability. Because the standard libraries don't covers all of the
> functionallity you want in most of your programs. And you have to use
> system dependent libaries. For example what if you want to do an app
> with a GUI? (Yes, you have QT, but...) And also there are compilers
> incompatibilities. A lot of times you have some code that runs well
> with GNU G++ but not with MSVC.


But if I combine g++ with either each HW supplier's own Unix, Linux or
Cygwin I get a rather compliant POSIX system. The advantage of
compiling directly to native machine code should compensate the extra
care necessary in writing portable code.


Cheers,
Nicola Musatti

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