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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:51:07 +0100
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Leszek Gawron wrote:

>Hi all, 
>I started looking into Rhino documentation and it states that rhino contains
>"A JavaScript compiler to transform JavaScript source files into Java class
>files". 
>
>I assume cocoon uses Rhino in interpreted way so my questions are:
>
>- is it at all useful to transform script into Java classes (performance)?
>- does it affect continuations? I mean are continuations supported in
>"compiled javascript" ?
>  
>

Rhino has different modes to compile scripts. The one used to support 
continuations doesn't allow generating class files. However, the script 
is compiled into "rhino bytecodes" which are interpreted by a "Rhino VM".

Sylvain

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