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>  
> > Have you heard about such a work ?
> 
> It couldn't compete with native TeX implementations.

That's not so sure: go on the javaworld site, it indicates how a JIT
compiler competes just equal with C++ native.
Sure an interpreter genders pityful performance (from 2 to 8 times away
from native implementations)

> For example, I can compile the 500 page TeX book in 11 seconds
> on this aging two year old Pentium.  I don't think I want
> to go back to where I have to wait :-)

Portability has a prize and it becomes more and more cheap.
JIT has solved this problem.
Things can be done smoothly, can't they ?
> 
> Also TeX has been ported already to just about any machine
> you can think off, probably more than what Java runs on.
> 
Alright! Let's hope it will evolve!
So that M$ office suite monopol will give back TeX its noble titles :)


Jip