nanogui@linuxhacker.org

I think that given the right balance of j/kvm and jit java would be awesome.
I don't know about the palm os concept, but I do a *lot* of heavy Java
development via Linux/Java and would love it if I could run the Java/Linux
combo on my handheld :-))

Certainly *is* worth a try.

--Pat

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:

> First, Java is not slow in itself. It can run quite as fast as standard
> C/C++ code (not optimised). This is only a matter of JVM implementation and
> JIT.
> Then, there is already an implementation of KVM (by sun and Palm) that run
> on 3com palmpilot (not available yet).
> Third, there is some PDAs that are quite as fast as a P70, no? There is PDAs
> with 100+MHz processor.
> Fourth, the processors are made to be faster and faster. Wait only one year
> and your processors will double their speed.
> 
> Don't you think it's enough and worth the try?
> -jec