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From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geirm@apache.org>
Subject: Re: FAQ  (was RE: [arch] VM Candidate : JikesRVM
 http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:10:20 -0400
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org

great.  thanks.  Lets make sure we keep it up to date

geir

On May 23, 2005, at 2:39 AM, Nick Lothian wrote:

>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any benchmarks on such designs?
>>>>> As a hard-core real-time and device driver guy, I am rather
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> skeptical
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> that this is anything else but a conflict in
>>>>>
>> requirements, runtime
>>
>>>>> performance in execution speed versus interpretability and/or
>>>>> compilability of the runtime module.
>>>>>
>>>>> But then again, I've only been working with Java at all for
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> less than
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> four years :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The discussion has been rehashed a lot of times.  I'd like
>>>>
>> to see it
>>
>>>> put to rest (perhaps we need a technical FAQ?).  See the
>>>>
>> end of this
>>
>>>> email for a brief answer anyway...*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Should we do a FAQ on the Wiki or start a website (since
>>>
>> now Harmony
>>
>>> officially is in the incubator)?
>>>
>>> (Either way I'll volunteer to get this going)
>>>
>>
>> Great - start in the wiki, and we can bring out to website
>> when it's filled out.  Easier to start on wiki.
>>
>> geir
>>
>>
>
> Here's a start: http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/TechnicalFAQ
>
> Nick
>
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