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To: Prognosticator who wrote (581)	1/27/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: William Sheppard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1606

Prognosticator wrote: 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? Was this a Chai product manager? In the past they have talked about being committed to a single eJava standard, but not one driven by Sun. In spite of losing a vote HP and Microsoft continue their attempt to create a rival real-time standard to the one Sun, IBM, and others are currently driving. 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 read that HotSpot had been relased to platform developers, not application developers. It will take time for the OS and tool vendors to incorporate HotSpot as part of their JVM's, at which time it will probably make it's way into application developer's hands. 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). Perhaps only the Windows performance is substantially faster (due to the inclusion of Symantec's latest JIT, supposed to be 30-40% faster than Microsoft's). I've not heard about Solaris performance...