Nookala Satish Kumar wrote:
> I too support the point to implement the VM in C/C++. But the problem
> with this would be porting the VM to multiple platforms like *nix,
> Win32, Mac etc.
> 
> Hence we have to choose between the two: Performance and Portability.

We do? Httpd runs on _far_ more platforms than Java does. It's written in C.

Cheers,

Ben.

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