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> It's a really clean abstraction of a computing environment No, it's a clumsy and leaky abstraction which was not well thought out. P-codes are a nice abstrac
by sklogic 11y ago
> It's a really clean abstraction of a computing environment
No, it's a clumsy and leaky abstraction which was not well thought out. P-codes are a nice abstraction. AS/400 is a nice abstrction. Dozens of other, better VMs are a nice abstraction. But not a JVM, which is broken by design.
I'd never chose it as an underlying VM for anything important.
- qwertyuiop924 11y agoYou forgot about Squeak. Now THAT is a brilliant abstraction. Provided you don't touch the outside OS, you can copy an image, bit-for-bit, to another computer that runs the Squeak VM, and it'll just work.