I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly
I wish someone would dissect JVM in exactly the same way: i.e. clearly explained what needs to be stripped off to have a quickly loading "hello world" implementation eating less than 1MB of RAM and starting in a few microseconds, like a normal, sane process should.<p>All these wonderful things are being built (Clojure, JRuby) on top of JVM that are of no use outside of web/EE because default JVM is so heavy.<p>Yes, a VM does a lot more than just bootstrapping your stdlib, like in case of libc, yet I keep thinking there must be plenty of unnecessary fat to strip off. Just look at Microsoft CLR: same feature set, yet none of that sluggish starting, RAM-wasting JVM nonsense.