(keitai-l) Re: BREW vs J2ME: money vs standards

From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings_at_roundpoint.com>
Date: 04/24/01
Message-ID: <JGEMKINHOOBEFEDLJPKOAEOBCBAA.ben.hutchings@roundpoint.com>
Michael Turner wrote:
<snip>
> > Java isn't an interpreted language.
> 
> A matter of perspective, I guess.  To me, virtual machine
> code is interpreted; JIT compilation is an optimization of
> an interpreter.

Sure, but Java bytecode is something different from the Java
language.

> > Garbage collection adds to memory
> > costs but not hugely, and it's better than having memory leaks.
> 
> I'm a little more concerned about the computation overhead,
<snip>

Garbage-collection rather than explicit freeing generally saves
time, actually.


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Received on Tue Apr 24 10:31:17 2001