[Forum] A big step forward in cross-platform computing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments View flat View list |
By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2004 PT
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that
allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.
Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run "transparently" on multiple
hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
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Posted by Don Cox on 20-Sep-2004 14:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 29 (noggin): "I'm not sure if people actually realise this, but Tao's VM technology is Java. It's a small+fast implementation of the virtual machine, and AFAIK nothing more than that."
Tao's technology is not Java, and it was invented long before Java. It is basically an intermediate byte-code, as in UCSD Pascal, which is compiled to the native code for each platform when it is loaded from disk to RAM. There are two modules for each platform, one for the CPU and the other for every other feature of the platform.
Java does run on it, and Tao claim a particularly efficient implementation, but so do other languages such as C. Or you can code in Tao's own macro-assembler. |
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