On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:38:56 GMT, Erik Wikström
>True, but one of the advantages of Java is that you can "write once, run
>everywhere", by compiling to native you lose that kind of portability.
If the criteria is "compile once, run everywhere" only then you lose
that kind of portability. In this case, you still have the original
source code that you can compile to bytecode that will run on JVMs.