Sun's HotSpot

Michael S. Klein mklein at alumni.caltech.edu
Thu Oct 8 23:52:03 UTC 1998


So, have multiple image formats/VM implementations.
One for space... one for speed.
-- Mike Klein

mklein at alumni.caltech.edu

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Gerardo Richarte wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Jan Bottorff wrote:
> 
> >                  Memory is REALLY cheap now. I can remember when I first
> > heard about Self requiring a 64 meg SparcStation, and though only lunatic
> > fringe researches had that much memory. My 2 main Intel boxes now have 128
> > and 256 meg of RAM, even my laptop has 40 meg.
> 
> 	That's true, but still my PalmPilot has only 1M, and PDAs are very
> interesting platform for running Squeak
> 
> > Isn't the Java HotSpot technology the evolution of the Self
> > compiler/run-time. My understanding is some of the Self developers formed a
> > company called Anamorphic Systems, which produced a Java/Smalltalk product.
> 
> 	Memoryless Bye!
> 	Richie++
> 
> 





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