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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @04:43AM (#1978548)
LLVM does include a VM, although that's not the focus.
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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by elblanco on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:03AM (#1979017)
I'm wondering if it might be better suited in this context to producing byte-code for Parrot?
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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:19AM (#1979055)
Why? It seems perfectly capable of producing native code.
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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by elblanco on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:43AM (#1979569)
Because sometimes compiling to an intermediate VM has advantages over compiling to native code.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977956

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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:32PM (#1979762)
I'd read that comment, which is in this very thread (!), I just don't see why you'd want to do that.
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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by elblanco on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:54PM (#1979863)
Which part doesn't make sense, running intermediate byte-code in a VM, or using LLVM to target Parrot? If it's the former, I'm not sure I can persuade you in this thread if a decade of enterprise software can't do that, if it's the latter, then I can see that also.
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