From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:26:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:26:02 -0400 Received: from vitelus.com ([64.81.36.147]:26890 "EHLO vitelus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:25:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 04:25:44 -0700 From: Aaron Lehmann To: hps@intermeta.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java Message-ID: <20010620042544.E24183@vitelus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9gponv$j92$1@forge.intermeta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does > not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or > any elegance whatsoever" [2]. However, the very concept of Java encourages not caring about "performance, system-design or any elegance whatsoever". If you cared about any of those things you would compile to native code (it exists for a reason). Need run-anywhere support? Distribute sources instead. Once they are compiled they won't need to be reinterpreted on every run.