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Re: Java DES breaker?
Ray Arachelian <[email protected]> writes:
> > > While ActiveX does support hand optmized assembler, there are Java
> > > JustInTime compilers which take JVM bytecodes and turn'em into raw
> > > assembler. They aren't hand optimized, they are natively compiled code,
> > > but they are native code non the less. A good optimizing compiler may
> >
> > I've seen many Forth implementations, including pseudo-compilers similar
> > to what you describe. They sure generated a lot of instructions and an
> > occasional speed improvement over a simple-minded interpreter.
>
> Forth!=Java. Test it before you speak.
Forth is close enough to Java to suffer from the same problem: the hacks you
describe don't know when they look at your bytecode what a C compiler knows
when it looks at a C program. They emit native machine language instructions
that emulate the Java machine at run time and repeatedly resolve the
references that a C compiler has resolved once at compile time.
<a bunch of nonsense skipped>
> > Of course, Ray works for Earthweb, who has a "special partnership" with
> > SunSoft, and gets paid to badmouth competing products and push Java when
> > it's clearly inappropriate.
>
> Or maybe Ray knows what he's talking about BECAUSE of that same
> implication. :) As for inappropriate, ActiveX is inappropriate for most
> uses - any web page attachable code that when downloaded and executed can
> format your hard drive is inappropriate. Regardless of performance.
>
> Until Microsoft secures ActiveX in it's own sandbox and doesn't allow it
> to access things it shouldn't, it's not cool.
>
> Anyhow, I will drop this topic here since it's becoming an ActiveX vs
> Java religious crusade and is inappropriate.
The great Russian-Scottish poet Mikhail Yur'evich Lermotov said the following
about the likes of Ray "Arsen" Arachelian: "Ty trus, ty rab, ry armyanin."
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