[thelist] What is Reflector? [Was: sort expression]

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 14:50:22 CDT 2005


On 8/10/05, Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com) <peter at easylistbox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Kind of like Java. I should've expected that.
> 
>    I was under the impression that Java compiles 100% and then runs on whatever VM is installed.
> 

Well, yeah, that's how it works. But what do you think the VM does?
Source code is complied into an intermediate byte code, which is then
essentially translated into native code at run time by the VM
(otherwise, how could Java apps be as portable?).


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