Linux Sun's JVM needs improvements
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Feb 2 00:37:53 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:44 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> Edward Yang wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I think there is some misunderstanding about virutal techonology.
> >
> > In a virutal hardware box, the guest OS inside it does not know where it
> > is. It may be a litter or much slower than in a real hardware box, but
> > the memory footprint should never been any difference. That's why many
> > developers use Microsoft Virutal PC or VMWare to test there programs.
> > Think about it - you don't have to boot into another OS or go to another
> > computer that may be 50 meters far just to test a small problem of your
> > progarm!
> >
> > So I think I I have FC3 installed in a real hardware box, the memory
> > footprint of the JVM will be the same.
> >
> >
>
> And we can all trust Microsoft to ensure that this is how it works.
> Microsoft lost a very long court case after making Windows not work
> with Dr Dos. I wouldn't be surprised to find Microsoft doing
> something similar. Who really knows all the code in Windows.
>
>
Especially since Linux is the thorn in Microsoft's side right now.
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