Re: [computer-go] Pattern Matcher

[Stuart A Yeates <s.yeates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Boon wrote:

> I would be really interested if it would give a significant speedup. 
> In Java it's probably even more practical than in C, as it has the
> built-in capability of doing run-time compilation of the code and 
> load the compiled class run-time to replace the existing one.

This is not true in the general case.

While it is true that the Java standard libraries have a method for 
calling the compiler, an implementation is not required to have a 
compiler to be called. This is the key difference between Sun's JRE 
(Java Runtime Envirnoment) which doesn't have a compiler and Sun's JDK 
(Java Development Kit) which does.

Indeed, with the recent release of GNU's GCJ (Gnu Compiler for Java), 
it's going to be increasingly frequent for the Java code to actually be 
running as a pre-compiled binary executable.

cheers
stuart
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