[m-rev.] For review: update the documentation for the Java grade

James Goddard goddardjames at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 12 11:06:28 AEDT 2004


I've applied these suggestions and commited the change.

Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:> + Due to the absence of RTTI, type-checking is missing for these
> + predicates. They should be used with care.

s/type-checking/dynamic type checking/

> + time.clock/3:
> + time.clocks_per_sec/0:
> + time.times/7:
> + time.clk_tck/0:
> + Currently use native code, sacrificing some portability.

Here I think it is important to explain where the blame lies -- the problem
is Java's fault, not ours. So I suggest 

Because the current Java APIs do not provide any way of
implementing these procedures in pure Java, we have implemented
them using a native code library implemented in C and accessed
via JNI. This approach sacrifices some portability.




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