It's been possible to run JavaScript on a JVM for some time now (based on Mozilla's Rhino). Does anybody have any numbers as to how these recent in-browse JavaScript optimisations stack up against 10+ years of Sun work on general virtual machine optimisation? Could it be faster just to fire up the Sun JVM and use that as the JavaScript engine?
The Cold War drained them of everything and bankrupted the country, while leaving the US with "merely" a huge national debt... Don't forget a military industrial complex to make Eisenhower proud!
That sounds good on the one hand, given that they want 1% of a billion phones, BUT--Cingular only has 60M customers. Is the iPhone so great that ONE SIXTH of Cingular's customer base will spend $500?
The "one billion phones" is worldwide, unless the average American possesses just over 3 phones!
ArrayList<Integer> s = new ArrayList<Integer>(); ArrayList<? extends Number> t = s;// compiles
However, now you can't put anything into the collection t (since the actual type might be, for example, an ArrayList of Float objects or an ArrayList of Integers) but it is guaranteed that anything you get out of it will be a Number.
Hopefully the Camino developer(s) will now switch to this branch - from what I can see, the nightlies have been pretty variable quality ever since 0.7, which is when they switched to the trunk from a 1.0-ish branch.
I posted this further down, but Apple already provides a single-VM solution that Sun are looking at. It probably won't be in 1.5 though.
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No.
Sun are apparently looking at the work that Apple did to provide this functionality with the Apple implementation of 1.4, but it's not likely to be in 1.5 (see this chat transcript for the official line. Maybe 1.6 for non-Apple VMs?
As long as you trust your local users then you may not need to upgrade as you say... however you should be aware that a potential security issue was fixed with 10.2.4
What about a way to have multiple console users at the same time? WinXP has the rather nice feature where a second user can be logged on at the console at the same time as the first, without the first having to log out.
Does anything like this exist for OS X? I know there is a notion of a "Console user" in OS X (e.g. default user id for mounting disks) which might hinder this... any tips?
Apple currently provides a prerelease copy of "1.4" (i.e. 1.4.0) to "seeded" members of their developer community. If you haven't paid the $500 it costs to join, there's nothing available yet and no dates have been announced. Yes, it's a pain. (See the FAQ for more details.)
On the positive side, they are apparently doing a long of rearchitecting of their Swing classes (?) to make future development a lot easier, so JDKs 1.5+ shouldn't lag the rest of the world by anything like the same amoung of time.
They did pretty well on the Software Update security flaw - how long do you think they will take to fix this, given that it is a *ahem* Premium Service?
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C99 -> C11, come on guys ...
It's been possible to run JavaScript on a JVM for some time now (based on Mozilla's Rhino). Does anybody have any numbers as to how these recent in-browse JavaScript optimisations stack up against 10+ years of Sun work on general virtual machine optimisation? Could it be faster just to fire up the Sun JVM and use that as the JavaScript engine?
Just a rumour ...
http://www.macosxrumors.com/articles/2006/04/05/vm ware-being-ported-to-mac/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301 073
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301 073
Just a warning to anybody who's thinking about posting any "Their website must be hosted on a mini" comments ...
He's only deluded if there is no God - and nobody's proved that one way or another, right? :)
Hmm, ask Gerv about that.
Hopefully the Camino developer(s) will now switch to this branch - from what I can see, the nightlies have been pretty variable quality ever since 0.7, which is when they switched to the trunk from a 1.0-ish branch.
I posted this further down, but Apple already provides a single-VM solution that Sun are looking at. It probably won't be in 1.5 though.
No.
Sun are apparently looking at the work that Apple did to provide this functionality with the Apple implementation of 1.4, but it's not likely to be in 1.5 (see this chat transcript for the official line. Maybe 1.6 for non-Apple VMs?
BBEdit Lite? Lovely plumage!
It is no more. It is an ex-editor.
As long as you trust your local users then you may not need to upgrade as you say ... however you should be aware that a potential security issue was fixed with 10.2.4
Does anything like this exist for OS X? I know there is a notion of a "Console user" in OS X (e.g. default user id for mounting disks) which might hinder this ... any tips?
On the positive side, they are apparently doing a long of rearchitecting of their Swing classes (?) to make future development a lot easier, so JDKs 1.5+ shouldn't lag the rest of the world by anything like the same amoung of time.
They did pretty well on the Software Update security flaw - how long do you think they will take to fix this, given that it is a *ahem* Premium Service?