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From: Ralph Paul <repaul@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/17
Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34204085.5377@ibm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SGI.3.95.970916190623.19184E-100000@shellx.best.com



Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> On 14 Sep 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > Ralph Paul says
> >
> > <<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>>
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I think that the Ada to JVM technology has great
> > promise (or we would not be embarking on this project), but the idea
> > of using it to get greater portability in avionics applications seems
> > pushing things a bit :-)
> 
> I realize that the JVM port is motivated (quite rightly, IMO) by economic
> reasons, but I wonder if some other "intermediate form" besides byte
> codes might be better if one wanted a portable format which could then
> be compiled.
> 
> -- Brian

There already one such thing. It's called slim binaries and is used on
some 
Oberon-2 system. These system use some sort of abstract tree
representation
as "byte-code". This AST is then compiled on the fly on the supported
platform.
>From what I read on it  the technology gives you protable object-code
and
native peformance. Also the program flow analysis which is done in Java
to
determine malicious programs gets easier to do.

see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/  and look for slim binaries.


CU,

Ralph Paul





  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-09-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-11  0:00 ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Robert Dewar
1997-09-12  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13  0:00   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-14  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-15  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14  0:00     ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-14  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-17  0:00           ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-18  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17  0:00           ` Ralph Paul [this message]
1997-09-18  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19  0:00               ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-19  0:00                 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-20  0:00                   ` Jay Han
1997-09-22  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-20  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21  0:00                   ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-22  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16  0:00         ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-15  0:00     ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15  0:00       ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-16  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17  0:00         ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19  0:00             ` translating to Ada, was " Tom Moran
1997-09-19  0:00             ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-20  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-23  0:00                 ` multi-language to JVM compilers? W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-16  0:00       ` ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Tucker Taft
1997-09-17  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-09-15  0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-20  0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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