Re: Interesting piece: Objective-C on Java VM?

[Rob Kewley]

Rod Price wrote:
> 
> This is no longer true.  If you pay attention to such things as makingyour
> methods final, Java code run through a good JIT (Symantec Cafe
> 2.0, for example) runs just as fast as C++ on our signal processing
> benchmarks.  It beats MS C++ 5.0 on I/O speed, and Symantec C++
> (forgot the version) on processor speed.
> 

This is potentially good news for developers.  I am showing my
ignorance, but what does JIT stand for - Java Interpreter?

Rob Kewley

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