Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT |
nt [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 01:37 PM EDT |
Right now the only thing on the mind of Oracle's executives and legal team is
winning at any cost. It is not about their own business or about their own
profits. Like most coporations, they would rather collapse in bankruptcy than
see someone else make a single dime off of something they think they
"own."
That is what this patent nonsense is all about. Crushing the competition is the
only goal. Cost is irrelevant. It is not rational. This is the
"ownership" society.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 02:36 PM EDT |
...I remember reading that java.util.regex uses a similar regex syntax to
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
IBM wrote the original Oracle SQL API as SEQUEL. I wonder if
that copyright is still in effect? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: mexaly on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT |
I believe LISP might be pretty early in the family tree of interpreters. It has
names that came from the IBM 7090 series, which introduced transistors to
mainframe computing.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 05:17 PM EDT |
Java is not interpreted. Its compiled into bytecode. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 08:59 PM EDT |
Modern JVMs do very little bytecode interpretation. Run your favorite Java
program from a command line, allowing the JVM to JIT compile the bytecode to
machine language as it normally does
java ...
and then
run it again, interpreted,
java -Xint ...
and see how
slow interpretation is. You would notice if the JVM were doing any substantial
amount of interpretation, because your program would be so slow.
Note:
The "-Xint" option that tells the JVM not to use the JIT compiler is, like all
the -X options, subject to change. It works in Java SE 1.4 through 1.6, but I
haven't checked any other Java versions. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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