D vs. C#

[Robert Fraser]

David Brown wrote:
> 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

BlackBerry doesn't use ARM... But this is getting quite off-topic.