D vs. C#

[David Brown]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:46:52PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:53:33PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> It's about 500K of rom needed. And the code will run several times 
>>> faster, even with a simplistic code generator, which will make up for it.
>> Doubtful that it would be faster, since the processor that they use
>> directly executes Java bytecodes.
>
> It is a native compiler if it directly executes Java bytecodes!

But it doesn't have to.  Some phones will execute them directly, some will
JIT or even simulate them.

David