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Re: Native code FUD
by Gian Filippo Pinzari on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @17:12
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> Java implements it in the VM without any help from the OS...
That's the problem. It's the wrong place.
> it is just less work to translate from an intermediate language
Every language is an intermediate language, to some
extent. It is the VM idea that is useless, not the idea that
the code produced by the compiler can be optimized on the
fly for the target architecture or the target CPU.
> Linux in today's form is pretty useless in this respect
I completely agree. That's sounds like a good reason for
improving it.
The main motivation for building VMs it to run code on a
wide-spread architecture and OS without writing that code
for the specific OS and, most importantly, its API. It is a
good motivation, I think, but is not going to last once you
have the same code running on that architecture and that
OS natively.
Soon we'll see Microsoft Windows running native Linux
programs and Linux running native Windows programs. The
platform that will win will be the platform that offers
the better facilities for running those programs securely,
with the best scalability and the best manageability.
There is an alternative, though. Somebody comes with a new
computing architecture that requires programs to be written
for a new API or a new programming language. Who controls
the API, again, controls the platform. It is not a matter
of having the best OS anymore. It becomes a matter of having
the vast user-base required to impose the API. The idea is
very good, it it works.
/Gian Filippo. |
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