Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

Andrej Marjan amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 1 02:33:06 UTC 2006


On Friday 27 October 2006 13:45, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Virtual machines are too inefficient and mainly make sense when you
> don't know what the archtecture is going to be.  Most programs you know
> are going to run on a specific architecture, so you should simply
> compile it for that and not some stupid, bloated, inefficient virtual
> machine.

I suggest you look up HP's Dynamo research project. IIRC many of those folks 
went on to work on Sun's Hotspot VM, which is damned fast on long-running 
processes (like server applications).
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