Re: aio

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:28:36 +0000 (GMT)


> Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
> relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
> themselves.

Oh it'll be very relevant. Its leaking into all sorts of embedded uses, from
Digital TV to smartcards. Its still useless for serious high end work an
likely to stay so.

> Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
> certain.

There we agree. Things like the current asynch/thread mess in java are
partly poor design of language and greatly stupid design of JVM.
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