Donn Cave wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > They won't say Java. Ask them why Python is interpreted and Java isn't > > and you'll have a hard time getting a decent technical answer, because > > Python isn't all that different from Java in that regard, especially > > pre-JIT versions of Java. > > For me that would be partly because I don't know that > much about Java, honestly. Just searching at random > for something about the subject, I cam across this - > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-native.html?loc=j > - which seems like it might be of some interest here. > > My impression from reading this is that Java actually > can be compiled to native code, though in 2002 this > was relatively new. > > Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Excelsior Jet ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler FAQ "How does it work from the technical point of view?" http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jetfaq.html#internals -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list