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Java and Memory Protections

Posted Nov 22, 2006 19:22 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: Java and Memory Protections by bluefoxicy
Parent article: Virtual Machines and Memory Protections

I don't see why not. Java provides pure Java (not native) PNG and JPEG routines, as well as pure Java cryptography, pure Java compression, and the rest. Oh, and there are also pure Java web browsers.

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Posted Nov 22, 2006 19:25 UTC (Wed) by bluefoxicy (guest, #25366) [Link]

Sun Java does. What about GNU Classpath? Kaffe? Project Harmony? IKVM?

Java and Memory Protections

Posted Dec 3, 2006 12:57 UTC (Sun) by fjalvingh (guest, #4803) [Link]

One good reason to go native is performance.. Although Java performance is usually great you can get huge performance gains using assembly for specialized problems (like image encoding/decoding/filtering for instance)