Linux Sun's JVM needs improvements

Edward Yang neo_in_matrix at fastmail.fm
Wed Feb 2 01:53:16 UTC 2005


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.
>
>
Well, I think your reply does not have much relation to virtual 
techonology even m$ is very evil.
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