D vs Java

[David Medlock]

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...

-DavidM