On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Bob Ammerman wro= te: > Modern p-Code-like systems include Java > and .Net, both of which often get closer-to-native performance by using a > backend code generator (ofter a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler) to convert t= he > p-Code to native machine language. > That technology only makes it faster, but will never get any close to a native application in terms of speed. .NET is actually not too bad, but still, far from a native speed. What they should do is to compile the code when installing the software and job is done. Maybe installation would be much slower, so they could cache the binaries of the most popular platforms to help on it -- so then they ar= e slowly going back to the traditional cross compilation procedure what Linux is doing today :-) Tamas --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .