Problem with StringBuffer

Archie Cobbs archie at whistle.com
Tue Apr 4 10:49:06 PDT 2000


Mo DeJong writes:
> This brings up an interesting question. Should kaffe always
> maintain "compatibility" with a Sun JDK implementation
> (1.1, 1.2, or 1.3) even when a Sun implementation
> is clearly wrong or inefficient?

People seem to complain more about incompatible behavior
than they do about compatible behavior :-)

So I think we should maintain compatibility when we are forced to
(eg, same API's), but not when it's possible to do a better job
without breaking apps that run successfully on the JDK.

-Archie

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