George Sakkis a écrit : > On Jan 10, 3:37 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> I fail to see how the existence of JIT compilers in some Java VM changes >> anything to the fact that both Java (by language specification) and >> CPython use the byte-code/VM scheme. > > Because these "some Java VMs" with JIT compilers are the de facto > standard used by millions;
Repeating an argument doesn't make it more true nor more relevant. Once again, this doesn't change anything to the fact exposed above. > the spec is pretty much irrelevant I mentionned this because this kind of choice is usually not part of the language spec but of a specific implementation. Java is AFAIK the only language where this implementation stuff is part of the spec. > (unless > you're a compiler writer or language theorist). I thought it was quite clear and obvious that I was talking about points relating to these fields. > George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list