Re: ASP.NET and the iSeries - New Thread

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> But the CLR, when you really dig into it, is downright amazing. 
>   
What about it is so amazing?  What is more amazing than the JVM or ILE?

> The
> optimizing JIT is incredible. We've actually debugged some of the
> generated machine language from a optimized C# function, and I've seen
> the JIT throw out huge chunks of code as unneeded.
Not to be argumentative, but optimizing compilers are pretty old 
technology, Walden.  Have you ever read any of the optimization 
redpapers from IBM?  Talk about incredible.  It's some of the only 
programming that I have ever had a hard time following, it's so 
sophisticated.  Or how about JVM optimizations?  The JIT compiler in 
Java is nearly a decade old.

Much of what is in CLR has been done already, and either more tightly 
integrated, in the case of ILE, or more generally available, in the case 
of Java.  Yes, the CLR is a big step forward for Windows.  But it's not 
really that big a deal compared to other languages.

Joe