From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 2000/01/06
Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <852844$qu8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc7lho9n4g.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wcc7lho9n4g.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
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>
> I guess the one thing I admire most about Java is its strict
insistence
> on portability. I think that's a Good Thing. On the other
hand, in
> practise, what matters is what implementations do, which is
not
> something the language designer can control.
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Well sure you can get complete portability if you sacrifice
efficiency. For instance, in the case of floating-point,
the Java rules have drastic effects on efficiency of
floating-point code on the x86, and *that's* an IEEE machine,
you don't even want to think about Java on a non-IEEE machine.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-09 0:00 The revolution will not be standardized Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-23 0:00 ` gnat 3.12 Michael Ben-Gershon
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` The revolution will not be standardized Richard D Riehle
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-14 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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