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[Paulo Pinto]

Are you not being a bit simplistic here?

There are several JVM implementations around not just one.

Plus if I understand correctly some complains of people using D in real
projects, in many cases JVM JITs are able to generate better code than 
D. At least for the time being.


> I used to be intimately familiar with the JVM, I even wrote a gc for it.
> The bytecode ops in it are designed for Java, nothing more. Worse, it's
> a primitive stack machine. To generate even passably good native code,
> the JVM has to do a lot of reverse engineering of the bytecode.
>
> For example, you cannot pass by value anything other than the primitive
> Java data types. There are no pointers. Want an unsigned int? Forget it.
> Arrays of anything but class references? Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Etc.
>