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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.tech
Subject: Re: Linux's built in Java support
Date: 6 Jun 1997 17:26:53 +0100
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"Shirish K.Karmarkar" <shirish@softplus.com> writes:

>Linux 2.0.0 has a built in support for Java, i.e. the kernel
>understands Java byte code and runs it like any other binary
>code. What are the implications of this for a Java programmer ?
>Performance improvement is one.

I think it is an exaggeration to say that the kernel
"understands Java byte code".
It just runs "java xyz" (with your java)
if you give the command "xyz".
In fact you have to make xyz.class executable, too,
which it is not by default, I believe.


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