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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 2000/01/06
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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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