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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Hey I have nothing against Java, indeed most of my coding is done in Python, another interpreted language that is also "compiled" to bytecode before execution. But I do enough high performance computing to know that there is a significant hit both in terms of memory usage and speed to using an "interpreted" language. Whether that hit is significant enough to affect apps running on the PRS500, I don't know.
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The point was simply that you had to have a JVM, that Java code could run quickly, and that Java wasn't an interpreted language in the sense of, say, BASIC.
There are cases where you really
do need to resort to something like C++, or even hand crafted assembler for inner loops of computation intensive routines, but hardware is powerful enough these days to make Java a good solution for many tasks.
I don't know enough abut the specs on the Sny Reader to say how well a JVM might do on it. I recall fun back in the old Palm days, when people were trying to get a working JVM onto devices that had 8 to 16 MB of RAM, and ran at 16 or 33 mhz. SuperWaba is about the best of that lot, and they faced real challenges in slimming a JVM down to fit.
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Dennis