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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

Le 03/03/2015 01:08, T.J. Duchene a écrit :
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>> It's interesting that you'd mention Java here. I don't much like the
>> Java language or the Java programming culture, but Java bytecode has
>> the interesting property that, with a little plumbing, one can send
>> executable code over the network and have it run on a remote
>> machine. This actually winds up being useful for large-scale data
>> crunching, where you want to move the code to the data rather than
>> the data to the code wherever possible. I wouldn't know how to build
>> a system that does this in C (for instance) that isn't brittle.
> There is no magic to it. Java's core is usually written in C after
> all. Realistically, the reason Java can do that is that Java bytecode
> is processor generic. You could theoretically do that with C as long
> as the processors are the same.

     Alas no! There's the F. shared libraries. It works only if you link 
statically, which is discouraged by the glibc just because Ulrich 
Drepper does not like it.


     Didier