> Cretainly some even quite primitive JITting JVMs have been seen to give
> nearly an order of magnitude performance improvement over Kaffe. I
> wonder how much of Kaffe's 'bloat' comes from it supporting multiple
> architectures?
> 

Having some experience with portable programs, a little, but not
much could be attibuted to this.  OTOH, the size of Kaffe is quite good
compared with JDK which doesn't do any JIT.  OTOOH (Three hands :)
Chockcino (although no JIT) manages a Hello World app in 150Kish
(I just found a nasty memory leak!) and a simple AWT program in 4-500kish

Peter 

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