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James Arendt (maelstrom@csnet.net) wrote:

: However, with from what I've heard about the JIT compilers, Java will be 
: able to run close to if not the speed of C/C++.

Also I would guess a lot of old and new compiler techniques from Lisp, ML,
Self, etc. can be applied to a Java compiler. They cannot, at least as
universally, be applied to a C++ compiler. There will be a lot of
incentive over the next ten years for vendors to apply those
techniques to Java at cut-throat prices to the consumer.

The current Smalltalk vendors have so much on their plate and not
enough of a market to fund what they could do in the way of
optimizing delivery compilers while still providing every tool
under the sun (Sun?) for development environments.

There could be an order of magnitude or great number of vendors
competing in the Java market. And several orders of magnitude
more consumers to fund them. A reasonably capable language
combined with a large market, could just bring a ton of venture
capital to the problem.

Yeah, I can suffer with Java for those benefits, if enough of
them do not trickle down to the Smalltalk market.

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Patrick Logan plogan@teleport.com