FAQ (was RE: [arch] VM Candidate : JikesRVM http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/)

[Nick Lothian <nl...@educationau.edu.au>]

 
[snip]
> >Does anyone have any benchmarks on such designs?
> >As a hard-core real-time and device driver guy, I am rather 
> skeptical 
> >that this is anything else but a conflict in requirements, runtime 
> >performance in execution speed versus interpretability and/or 
> >compilability of the runtime module.
> >
> >But then again, I've only been working with Java at all for 
> less than 
> >four years :-)
> >  
> >
> The discussion has been rehashed a lot of times.  I'd like to 
> see it put to rest (perhaps we need a technical FAQ?).  See 
> the end of this email for a brief answer anyway...*
> 

Should we do a FAQ on the Wiki or start a website (since now Harmony
officially is in the incubator)?

(Either way I'll volunteer to get this going)

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Re: FAQ (was RE: [arch] VM Candidate : JikesRVM http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/)

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@apache.org>]

On May 22, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Nick Lothian wrote:

>
> [snip]
>
>>> Does anyone have any benchmarks on such designs?
>>> As a hard-core real-time and device driver guy, I am rather
>>>
>> skeptical
>>
>>> that this is anything else but a conflict in requirements, runtime
>>> performance in execution speed versus interpretability and/or
>>> compilability of the runtime module.
>>>
>>> But then again, I've only been working with Java at all for
>>>
>> less than
>>
>>> four years :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The discussion has been rehashed a lot of times.  I'd like to
>> see it put to rest (perhaps we need a technical FAQ?).  See
>> the end of this email for a brief answer anyway...*
>>
>>
>
> Should we do a FAQ on the Wiki or start a website (since now Harmony
> officially is in the incubator)?
>
> (Either way I'll volunteer to get this going)

Great - start in the wiki, and we can bring out to website when it's
filled out.  Easier to start on wiki.

geir



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