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>Yes you can, that is the whole business of PTC, Aicas and microEJ.

I'm saying that not all embedded devices have the horsepower to run a JVM. Nobody's running Java on the automotive equivalent of an 8-bit AVR, for example.

>you surely don't want pauses in a battleship targeting computer system (Aegis), or missile tracking system (thales).

That'd be the 1% of times when it does matter that I alluded to previously.




An 8-bit AVR can't even run proper ISO C.




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