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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: VM question for developersRE: VM question for developers
From: Ben Allfree <benles_at_bldigital.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:41:03 -0700 Contact managers, text browsers, etc. Not CPU intensive stuff. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se] On > Behalf Of TP Diffenbach > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 4:12 PM > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Subject: Re: VM question for developers > > Quoting Ben Allfree <benles_at_bldigital.com>: > > > Hi Developers, > > > > > > > > The Jukebox firmware team is presently discussing the technical > feasibility > > of implementing a virtual machine like Java or Python. Assuming that > > portable C code is available, and that the firmware can be developed, > what > > trouble do you think we would encounter? > > > Memory: for the VM plus the libraries plus the interpreted code. > Speed: java, at least (can't speak about Python) is slow -- a good part of > the reason is that it allocates memory for everything except primitives. > > Question: what sort of java/python apps would you expect people to want to > run on the Rockbox?-- > Archos FM has a Rockbox! Received on 2003-05-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |