D vs. C#

[David Brown]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:43:08AM -0400, Robert Fraser 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 doesn't, but I think it might be stretching my NDA to explain how it actually works.

Ok, vast oversimplification, but if it is arm based, it is probably Jazelle
based, which, depending on implementation can either directly execute
bytecodes or has a lot of support for JIT.

   <http://www.arm.com/products/esd/jazelle_home.html>

which has plenty of non-NDA stuff people can read.

David