Comment Someone Way More Schooled Than Me... (Score 1) 128
Please explain why 'Java services' are a good idea? I don't mean to disrespect Java.. but my understanding is that it is not compiled to native code. If I really want something like a service, don't I want it to be as efficient and spanky fast as it can be? Don't I want it running in native machine language? I see so much being done these days with 'interpreters' (.Net CLR, Java, Flash, Python, Perl) and I wonder how good the interpreters REALLY are and how they would fair against native code? I come from an assembler background so it's difficult for me to appreciate how giving up the efficiency of native code is a good idea for something like a service, especially in a small portable platform where resources may not be abundant? Do people ever compile Java to native code?