"Gerhard H�ring" a �crit dans le message news: kvqgj9.e9r.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal... > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:53:36 +0200, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > >This has nothing to do with Java, and all to do with the JVM. Any language > >compiled to the JVM (including and not limited to Ada) will do the same. > > > >Remember that Java is the less portable of all programming languages, since it > >runs on only one machine. It is so unportable that to run it, you must emulate > >the only machine on which it runs ! > > Native compilers for Java do exist as well. > And is the result really portable? Even for numerics on a non-IEEE machine ? Even for multi-threaded programs (that depend on the scheduling algorithm) ? -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr