Summary Scott Plamondon responds to a reader's concerns about the portrayal of the TowerJ JVM, Bill Day answers a questions about porting the KVM to multiple platforms, and Todd Sundsted replies to a reader's criticisms of his code. Scott, I am troubled by what I read in your recent article comparing JVMs. In many of the measures you supplied, its performance edge wasn't significant. This is only a 1 percent difference.
Any system dies given enough load.
The message to take home from the data is rather different from the conclusions you present. This apparent discrepancy between the data you offer and your conclusions leads me to be skeptical of your objectivity. In general, your article would have much more credibility if your conclusions accurately matched the data you presented. If you had better data available to support your conclusions, I would have liked to have seen it. Your analytical conclusions, inferences, and impressions suffer as a result of the disconnect between the data you present and the conclusions you derive.