>>It is only a matter of time before a CPU chip with an embedded JVM is built, and then the speed issue vanishes.
>
>see these:
>http://eet.com/news/97/973news/java.html
>http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990709S0012

Hmmm... It hard to stay ahead of technology. :)

I couldn't tell when the "First Java-specific chip takes life" article was written but I take it that it is quite recent.

Many years ago I worked on a Burroughs B5500 which had a stack-oriented hardware architecture (no general registers). Very elegant design.

Peter Robinson