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RE: [stellation-res] Database Package Audit.
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--- "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 15:10, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > Have you considered starting to use Java 1.4 so as to get access to
> > the assert feature. It may be the way to go for such situations. It
> > at least provides a simple minded simulation of Design By Contract.
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> Yes, we have considered it. The main reason that we've postponed
> doing it thus far is that the performance of Stellation is
> dramatically better when using the IBM JDK, and IBM has not publicly
> released their version of 1.4. (I just got the IBM internal
> pre-release of 1.4 last week. I don't know when it will be available
> to non-IBM folks.) Our policy so far has been to avoid using any
> tools that our outside contributors can't use. I don't want to give
> up the performance of the IBM JIT, but I also don't want to be doing
> our work on a version of the JVM that outside users can't run.
Please stick to the list of supported JVM's for Eclipse itself.
Otherwise you would limit the possibilities of platforms/JVM's that
people can use to run the combination of Eclipse+Stellation!
Don't forget that some companies have policies about what JVM to use.
You would leave them in the cold if our choice of JVM wouldn't match
the company policy, and it's the last thing I want to do!
Ringo
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