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These days, there are more advantages than drawbacks to running in a VM. The performance advantage of native over byte code has shrunk considerably to the point

by laureny 14y ago

These days, there are more advantages than drawbacks to running in a VM. The performance advantage of native over byte code has shrunk considerably to the point of being only relevant for a tiny portion of applications (e.g. games). On the other hand, there are considerable advantages to JVM's, as Java and the generation of language it kickstarted has shown.

kgabis 14y ago
Having a VM also adds a whole lot of security concerns and in case of jvm - dependency on sun/oracle. VMs are not the only way to kickstart language generation, there are other options, such as llvm (yeah, that name is confusing in this context).
- eru 14y ago
  Wouldn't a vm help with security?
- pjmlp 14y ago
  > ... case of jvm - dependency on sun/oracle ... Why the dependency on Oracle? There are other many other JVM available, even not certified ones, and you can also use compilers to native code if you wish to do so.