Re: Mixing OO and DB

From: rpost <rpost_at_pcwin518.campus.tue.nl>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:19:58 +0100
Message-ID: <56b97$47b8c11e$839b4533$19441_at_news1.tudelft.nl>


topmind wrote:

>> >For efficiency, true-compiled languages need to toss higher-level
>> >structures, meaning there is less of them to examine at run-time. Java
>> >is not a truely compiled language, but a hybrid, I would note.
>>
>> Irrelevant. How Java is compiled doesn't affect its reflection support.
>
>If a compiler completely tosses high-level information, then it is not
>available at run-time. For example, a true compiler would NOT store
>the text name of a class or variable, but rather only keep the binary
>address (101011101010101 and so forth).

Yes, sorry, I should have realized that's what you meant before posting.

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Reinier
Received on Mon Feb 18 2008 - 00:19:58 CET

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