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. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 pager 408-787-1281 # "At year's end, however, new government limits on Internet access threatened # to halt the growth of Internet use. [...] Government control of news media # generally continues to depend on self-censorship to regulate political and # social content, but the authorities also consistently penalize those who # exceed the permissable." - US government statement on China...