[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 05/24/2017 04:59 AM, noreply at z505.com wrote:
>> On 2017-05-23 01:03, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
>>>> Isn't java just a wrapper around C?
>>> No. Java compilers generate code for a virtual machine, called JVM 
>>> (Java
>>> Virtual Machine). They do not generate code for x86 CPUs or any other
>>>  ...snip...
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> But the virtual machine is just C code, so it's a wrapper around C, IMO
The virtual machine is a JIT compiler, so it recompiles the bytecode to 
machine code for the current CPU, *not* to C code, so your understanding 
is not very accurate.
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> I could be wrong, but, all it does is end up calling C written VM, right?
What does "calling" a VM even mean? The VM is like a compiler, it 
translates java bytecode to machine code. It can also be implemented as 
an interpreter (and probably ancient versions of the JVM were 
interpreted), but that makes the program run much slower, and it can 
never compete with compiled code in this case.

Nikolay