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From: raould <raould@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and JVM
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:27:16 -0700 (PDT)
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There are some things I would kinda like to know re: the recent
announcements. They do a lousy job of explaining WTF their system
actually can do, and how it does it. All buzzwords (JVM! .Net!) and
very insufficient technical details :-(

a) which Java/.Net VMs does it really support? the announcements list
JVM on Windows implying that it doesn't support other JVMs, which is
sorta odd. Would it e.g. be Dalvik-able? Or OpenJDK? Or Mono?

b) is it just the JNI bridge, or does it really optionally compile to
JVM/.Net bytecodes?

c) what are the performance and sizes like?!?!

[d) as an aside, I wonder how likely it is to be able to use GNAT to
develop iPhone ARM apps.]

Anybody have any insights? Thanks!