The End of Native Code?
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| psycln asks: "An average PC nowadays holds enough power to run
| complex software programmed in an interpreted language which is handled
| by runtime virtual machines, or just-in-time compiled. Particular to
| Windows programmers, the announcement of MS-Windows Vista's system
| requirements means that future Windows boxes will laugh at the
| memory/processor requirements of current interpreted/JIT compiled
| languages (e.g. .NET, Java , Python, and others). Regardless of the
| negligible performance hit compared to native code, major software
| houses, as well as a lot of open-source developers, prefer native
| code for major projects even though interpreted languages are easier to
| port cross-platform, often have a shorter development time, and are
| just as powerful as languages that generate native code.
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