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To: William Sheppard who wrote (578)	1/26/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1606

Hey,fellas....what's all this mean for INSGY?.....puzzled by the new technology...

To: William Sheppard who wrote (578)	1/26/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1606

The majority of HP is committed to 'Pure Java', but the group making Chai is committed to fragmenting Java and wresting control from Sun. Hmm. That's not what their product manager said at the Java Sig last month in Palo Alto. Maybe they've reconsidered. The only things they weren't doing were byte-code verifiers and something else I can't remember. Does that fragment Java? Early versions of Hotspot have been released to developers. Java 2 is absolutely faster than previous versions (much better JIT included). Hotspot is very late. I seem to recall that it was originally promised last year, but these things happen I know. I'll go back and check the Sun developer connection and see if I can get hold of it. I need that kind of performance! Java 2 does have a JIT, but the code I'm currently working (LEX/YACC driven parsers targeting Java) runs 10 times slower than C, and 1.4 times slower than PERL), even with the JIT (Solaris 2.6/Enterprise 450 Quad Processor). Without the JIT its 20 times slower. I'm a little disappointed, but maybe HotSpot will do the trick. FYI: the performance of a translator isn't an issue, but it's a good direct comparison of the speed of various languages since the code is generated automatically from the same grammars. Of course, I haven't profiled it yet to see where the time consuming bits are. My code, of course, couldn't possibly be slowing things down :) P.