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To: Justin Banks who wrote (10594)6/29/1997 5:41:00 PM
From: Carlos Blanco   of 24154
 
>Because Lawrence hasn't seen the MSFT Java VM code, and MSFT
>hasn't released public specs, he cannot possibly know whether
>or not it violates parts or all of the Java standard.

Please don't try to cloud a perfectly valid measurement with
allegations. Our VM "violates" (?) nothing. Please visit
microsoft.com, and you can read the docs and verify
for yourself that the VM downloadable from there as part of the
2.0 SDK can run any 100% Java program Communicator can run. Sun
last year designated our VM as the reference implementation on Win32
(http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1996/apr96/actxjapr.htm),
and this status has not changed. As a licensee, we have complied with
and will continue to comply with all terms and requirements of our
agreement with Sun.

It's ridiculous to say that his measurements are invalid because
he doesn't have the source code or our internal specs--no
benchmarks would ever be released for any product if these were
requirements. A VM is just a program that takes an input, and
produces an output. Given two VMs that produce the same output
on the same input (in this case, CaffeineMark), if one VM scores
higher than the other, then it's simply faster. I'm sorry if
this conflicts with the religious dogma that Microsoft
is incapable of producing something that's better than its
competitors.

--Carlos
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