Re: need to focus on java performance?

[Heitzso <heitzso at growthmodels dot com>]

In a heretical mode ... compilers are written to provide running executables
for higher level languages, and suffer from the constraints of those 
languages.
I honor the incredible work of gcj, but I also read in this list about 
the difficulty
of providing super elegant clean compiler technology solutions (some 
idealized
world) due to problems inherent in the language definition.

(here comes the heresy)

Would it make sense to invent a Java variation (or call it something new)
that fit like a glove with compiler technology to generate super clean and
fast code but that also provided the constructs that we associate with a
modern computer language?  Is that even possible?

Just curious.