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To: QwikSand who wrote (12463)	12/9/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

It's a VM that supposedly does all kinds of heuristic analysis of code paths on the fly, and the fancy stuff I've heard it described as doing can't be little in terms of code size. Actually, the main problem is not the code size of the new compiler technology but the size of the code that it generates. The heuristics can end up generating several different versions of binary for a given block of byte codes, which can take up substantial memory. However, I believe you are correct in saying that the HotSpot technology is not geared towards thin client hardware. It will be best suited on the server-side, which I believe is where Java is more suited anyhow.