On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>JVM definitely sucks (stack machine with builtin slowness), but who cares about performance on these things.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>You are confusing interface with implementation. Dalvik is register-based.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br>I am not. The JVM is specifically designed as a stack machine. You may execute Java byte code<div>on a register machine, but Java byte code is inferior even to GNU RTL.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener<br>
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