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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:34:08 +0200
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Christopher Browne wrote:
> I'm not sure it's "integral" yet. (I suspect it has too many
> discontinuities to be piece-wise continuous, and thus integrable...
> :-))
I think you have a few /points/ there :-)
> There still seems to be a lot of "vaporware" about it. Be sure to
> realize that it's competition to J2EE, as opposed to other things.
... as I thought, I just wasn't sure.
> The code that gets helped by "native compilation" is tight loops
> involving primitive operations. For Perl, and Icon, for that matter,
> code that is /interesting/ will make extensive use of string pattern
> matching (regexes, in Perl), and that sort of code will dig into the
> "native-compile" libraries, and perform well even with 'byte-compiled'
> code.
Of course. I just forgot what Icon (and Perl) are used for!
I see a need for better integrations with 'extern's , tho?
Atle