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Non-JVM VM

Non-JVM VM

Posted Nov 14, 2007 4:22 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Non-JVM VM by ajross
Parent article: Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME (Betaversion)

Obviously.  But a design incompatible with JVM may also implement instructions that JVM
doesn't.  As an example, CLR implements the tail-call optimization.  Turing-completeness is
meaningless at this level.  (If you insist on nitpicking, I will point out that nobody has
ever implemented a Turing-complete execution environment, and nobody ever will.)


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