by loftar » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:48 pm MagicManICT wrote:It's just packed down to a form that's faster than just plain text interpretation (like old-style BASIC) (one instruction can be hundreds or even thousands of machine cycles).
People actually still believe this? Sun's JVM has been compiling to native code for over ten years. Not that the Haven client (and many other Java programs) don't have performance problems, but they aren't related to the execution speed of the JVM.
