[SLUG] Re: Scarborough Digest, Vol 148, Issue 3

[Jonathan Worthington]

Bob Garrood wrote:
> On Friday 25 August 2006 12:15, Johnathan wrote:
>   
>> At that last meeting I vaguely recall there being some interest on a
>> talk on virtual machines, perhaps Parrot specifically.  Do folks want
>> this, and if so are there any particular things you'd like me to focus
>> on in particular?
>>
>> Jonathan (offline from now until Tuesday)
>>     
>
> Sounds good to me.  Java uses a virtual machine. How successful has that been? 
>
>   
Well, it's famously known for being slow.  ;-)  Runtime performance is 
much better now but startup is still slow.  I'll give some analysis on 
this in my talk since you asked.

The football is on Wednesday evening, by the way - will anyone actually 
be coming to SLUG?!

Jonathan