Peter Zijlstra pisze:
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> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
>> Interesting read:
>>
>> http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
>>
>> Personal comments:
>>
>> Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop 
>> up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial 
>> difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for 
>> device drivers development.   Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of 
>> usability/supportability/extensibility etc.   udev is a Linux thing, 
>> whereas Java is at industry level.   If everyone write applications 
>> device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific 
>> stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like 
>> TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C 

Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs.
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