RE: [computer-go] Pattern Matcher

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:computer-go-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stuart A Yeates
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 18:58
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> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Pattern Matcher
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> 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.

That could be. I did something like this some years ago, although it was for
a more mundane application for a bank. You don't necessarily need the JDK,
just the 'tools' library.

>
> 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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