[52230] in Cypherpunks
RE: Java bignum package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Mar 16 03:19:28 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:09:14 -0800
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 06:08 PM 3/15/96 -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
>My implementation is purely in Java, so it is much slower than one which
>uses native methods, although I don't think native methods can be sent
>across the net automatically like applets, so until they are widely
>distributed a pure-Java implementation may have some advantages.
Does Java have a run-time way to do
#if_exists library_X
foo = library_X.method_a(bar, baz)
#else
foo = library_Y.method_a(bar, baz)
#endif
or equivalent? This would let you distribute a slow pure-java library
that's compatible to a native-mode library and use whichever you need.
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