[ Quoting David Bowerman to Scott Little ] 
 SL> platform specific code. MUCH more than was ever intended. The whole
 SL> concept of Java went bust.
 DB> Care to give an example of platform specific code?
I don't code Java
 DB> Near as I can tell, there is very little plaform specific Java code and
 DB> that amount is shrinking -- check the documentation for the 1.1 SDK for
 DB> instance. The interpreter/JIT compiler code is platform specific but the
 DB> Java code itself is not. 
I'm going on an article/interview I read. Basically they found out that Java
can't do what platform specific code does, and therefore extra bits have
been/are being added to compensate. The original Java design still remains
intact for the Java CPU.
Regards,
 - Scott
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