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Building middleware hinges on the notion that your platform has enough spare cycles to execute your middleware. iPhones can, Androids can... but have you seen
by potatolicious 15y ago
Building middleware hinges on the notion that your platform has enough spare cycles to execute your middleware.
iPhones can, Androids can... but have you seen the level of performance on a BlackBerry lately? I'm not sure if there's enough power under the hood, or enough performance in the OS, to run an interpreted layer on top.
- kragen 15y agoMan, interpreters date back to the 1950s, if not the 1940s. There's always some stuff that needs to be compiled, and other stuff that doesn't, but the stuff that needs compiling gets smaller and smaller every year.