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JRE seems mandatory??

JRE seems mandatory??

Posted Mar 27, 2008 17:03 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: JRE seems mandatory?? by proski
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

>But why isn't it compiled to the native code by default? It's not like the filters are meant
to be copied to other platforms.

Perhaps a performance issue?
Compiled Java isn't necessarily faster than a JVM, probably because much more manpower has
been invested in the JVM than in a 'normal ahead-of-time' compiler.

Plus from a marketing point of view, I doubt that Sun would like this..


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