D vs Java

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

David Medlock wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> "Jari-Matti Mäkelä" <jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:dvk2v1$1rf1$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>
>>> Using VMs is not a solution, it's a terribly perverted workaround. The
>>> real problem is that current operating systems are far too monolithic
>>> and hang/corrupt the whole machine when one unfortunate process
>>> dies/does something bad.
>>
>>
>> I agree. The job of the operating system is to sandbox processes so
>> that when one dies, it is isolated from all the others, which it does
>> a reasonably good job doing (but it could do better). The CPU hardware
>> certainly is set up to support this. You can even run Windows entirely
>> in a virtual machine!
>>
> Taking this a step further, look at the massively scalar CELL processor.
> 
> Which do you think could harness that power better?
> A VM or a compiled language? (Note that not every VM needs to be as
> complicated as the JVM).
> 
> Obviously the choice of language itself matters a great deal, but the VM
> approach certainly has a step up in this reguard.
> 
> This is not to impugn D, just to point out the larger picture...

We can create this next generation VM for CELL-processors using D. :)