Sander Vesik writes:

Gordon D. Pusch wrote:

See, for example, FORTH --- which uses a =MUCH= simpler virtual machine
than JAVA, and can pack an entire operating system / extensible compiler
into a mere 8k...

You can have JVM-s with sizes within the same order of magnitude. A JIT
JVM will obviously be larger, but not by *that* much.

I am talking about an ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM, with EXTENSIBLE COMPILER.
The "virtual machine" component of FORTH totals only a few tens of bytes.
FORTH is utra-lean and ultra-clean. The JVM is built to MILSPEC.

-- Gordon D. Pusch

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