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From: tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com ()
Subject: Re: Advantages of Smalltalk over Java
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|Java may run into the same kind of problem with shrink-wrapped
|applications. Compared to one written in C++, it's slow. 

Is there any fundamental reason why an implementation of Java is prevented
from dynamically compiling the bytecodes, as is done in ParcPlace's Smalltalk?

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