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From: Ralph Paul <repaul@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/14
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Date: 1997-09-14T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> That's right -- making GCC produce JVM byte code makes no sense, since the
> level of abstraction is quite wrong. What we are doing is a completely new
> backend that generates JVM from the GNAT tree.
> 
> As to your question about adaptation, if you believe that going through
> JVM and JIT compilers etc can yieled acceptably efficient code then indeed
> you can follow this path (and perhaps you can also get a job as a publicity
> agent for Sun :-)

Hold on !! Sun has the HotFlash technology still waiting to used (;-).
I'm sure everything is going to be great once we get the benefit of this
stuff
(;-).

Has anybody thought about the slim binaries idea popular in the Oberon-2
camp ?
(Just a question)

Regards,

Ralph Paul