> >> > > 1. fat binaries
>
> How about an architectural independent format for multi-platform
> distrubution. It won't give you the speed of native binaries, but at
> least it will give portablity.

The thing could be translated into the native code when installed.

> Two candiates that come to mind are: RTL (this is abit of a problem,
> if two versons of NetBSD differ significantly, although it could be
> argued that if an application is platform specific then it should be
> native anyway), and the Java virtual machine.

Unfortunately, gcc RTL is not processor independent, at least it
wasn't last I checked when I was pondering about an RTL-emitting
Scheme compiler.

Ken