Re: java
Re: java
- Subject: Re: java
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:30:51 +0100
Craig,
>
>>>>> Craig A. Mattocks (CAM) wrote at Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:17:08 -0400:
CAM> If only there were a Cocoa/C compiler that would generate
CAM> multi-platform Java-like byte code, then Cocoa would rule the world...
Looks like nonsense. There is actually no need for that -- the gcc, which
can compile for almost any CPU, plus fat binaries, is perhaps not *that*
elegant solution, but from practical point of view quite comparable, if not
slightly better one (well, the best one would be fatbin containing bytecode
as well, so that platforms without native code can fallback to interpret. Add
a bytecode/native postcompiler, and we have a dreamland).
So as you can run either, you would need frameworks though, and Apple
deliberately cut the portable OpenStep frameworks they bought (OpenStep
supported the "native" solution from previous paragraph very nicely, adding
the bytecode part would be _relatively_ easy). Cocoa applications are not
portable anywhere not for any technical reason, but since Apple business
people decided that!
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