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The author is clearly correct and yet he is wrong because he asked the wrong question. How fast it runs is not as important as "is it fast enough for the custo
by teyc 16y ago
The author is clearly correct and yet he is wrong because he asked the wrong question.
How fast it runs is not as important as "is it fast enough for the customer" and "will I be able to produce this at a reasonable price?"
Everything in engineering is a trade-off.
A VM in a puny chip is the price one pays for a developer audience, to build a thriving ecosystem of apps so that consumers will want to buy the device.
- lkosewsk 16y agoA VM in a puny chip is the price one pays for a developer audience, to build a thriving ecosystem of apps so that consumers will want to buy the device. Too bad Apple didn't pay that price, because otherwise, they might have had consumers and a thriving... oh, wait...
- teyc 16y agoApple already had a toolchain and developers before iPod Touch arrived. It made sense for them. A newcomer with no audience does not have too many choices. The world simply has more developers who program to JVM or CLR.