[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 14:14 GMT | In reply to Comment 30 (3seas): "So, again, translation should happen at the code creation level.
Why? What sthe most obvious reason? run time overhead. As a direct compile for the hardware is (no translation during runtime) vs. the translation process during runtime in using a VP."
There is no runtime overhead in Tao's system. The final compile is done as the program loads from disk, before it starts running. It is claimed that the extra loading time is negligible.
It does not translate during run time - it runs native code suitable for the platform.
It's a clever system, just nothing to do with the Amiga. |
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