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To what degree are they native? I wouldn't consider something native just because it bundles the VM into the exe.
by flukus 9y ago
To what degree are they native? I wouldn't consider something native just because it bundles the VM into the exe.
- pjmlp 9y agoTo the same degree as C is native, there isn't any VM doing JIT compilation. All straight sugar free Assembly instructions. Now if you mixing the notions of VM and runtime, even C has a runtime called crt0 on most UNIX systems.
- flukus 9y ago> Now if you mixing the notions of VM and runtime, even C has a runtime called crt0 on most UNIX systems. I was mixing them up. The line seems be kind of blurry though once you start embedding garbage collectors though, then again the GC could just as easily be in an external library.