Impressed

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Sat Jul 28 01:26:29 PDT 2012


On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:53:27 +0200
"Stuart" <stugol at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 02:38:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Saturday, July 28, 2012 04:31:40 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> >> But note, even then, that D only targets 32-bit architectures
> >> and up, while C can handle 16-bit architectures.
> >
> > True, but I'm kind of shocked that anything 16-bit even still 
> > exists. _32-bit_
> > is on its way out. I thought that 16-bit was dead _years_ ago. 
> > I guess that
> > some embedded stuff must use it. But really, I wouldn't expect 
> > the lack of 16-
> > bit support to be much of an impediment - if any at all - and 
> > in the long run,
> > it'll mean absolutely nothing.
> 
> Embedded systems mostly use Java now in any case, as I understand
> it.

God I hope that's not true. Using a VM on a low-power system is just so
rediculously *wrong* it should be a crime.

The only embedded systems I know of that use Java are Android and
Symbian (both phones, of course). On Symbian it's optional (or at least
it was last I checked, many years ago), and at this point I think it's
questional whether Android counts as "embedded system" (more like
"handheld supercomputer").

But of course, there's no doubt *MANY* embedded systems I'm completely
unaware of...



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