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Subject: RE: Introduction, and a question
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:41:04 +0930
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From: "Nick Lothian" <nlothian@educationau.edu.au>
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> On May 15, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Brad Cox wrote:
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> > Hello. I'm an old-timer with OO languages (Objective-C=20
> originator) but=20
> > a newcomer to open source. I've just signed up to this list because=20
> > Harmony sounds like something I could really get excited by. I'd=20
> > welcome suggestions as to how to get started, traps to avoid, etc.
> >
> > I'll start by venturing what I suspect might be a naive question. =20
> > Java is fast enough once it gets its legs beneath it, but the=20
> > classloader is giving it a bad rap for speed. That's my impression,=20
> > not measured fact.
> >
> > Has there been any consideration to stealing an old trick from=20
> > Smalltalk/Lisp environments...a "restart" option that reloads the=20
> > dynamic state saved by a previous execution, typically one that has=20
> > just completed loading an app's classes but before run-specific=20
> > instances were created?
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> No, but that's a good one :)
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JRockit does this, see:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wljrockit/docs142/userguide/codecach.html


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> > I seems too simple to not have been tried, particularly=20
> with such as=20
> > Peter Deutch involved with the JIT compiler.
> >
> >
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> --=20
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> Geir Magnusson Jr                                  +1-203-665-6437
> geirm@apache.org
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Nick


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