On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:08:01AM -0700, Bill Volk wrote:
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> The JVM is quite slow as it is ... this would be even worse.
Recall that very small sections of a program's code - normally
low-level routines - account for most of its running time. As long as
those all fit into the JAR then an interpreter could be used for the
high-level code that doesn't account for much time. Consider the code
used for Infocom games (of course, those aren't time-critical).
Alternatively the demand-loaded "code" could just be maps or other
data tables, as dc suggested.
Received on Sun Jul 13 14:58:47 2003