Why interpret dynamically loaded classes?

Wed Aug 23 08:49:00 GMT 2000

Jack wrote:
> I note that both GCJ and TowerJ use a bytecode interpreter to handle 
dynamic
> class loading. But why not just compile the dynamically loaded class to a
> native shared object at *runtime*, then link at runtime, too?

Yes, this is possible. If someone were to implement this I'm sure we'd find 
a way to fit it in.
> You'd just need to deploy the bytecode to native compiler with the
> executable rather than the bytecode interpreter.

Well, that's one problem, because our compiler doesn't run on all of the 
target devices.
AG