This chart compares the performance of 12 VMs. Except for Apple Computer's Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ), all of the JVMs were tested on the same hardware and with the same Java application code.

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Here I am buried in subnormals, and have studied nothing in 15 years, except for the now confiscated computer.

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Except for Peter Moore, the computer technician from Lincoln, the kidnapped men have not been fully identified for security reasons.

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In the meantime, it is not quite clear who will actually use the library except, perhaps, local researchers using its computer systems to access works that are held elsewhere.

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And, according to Mr Smeaton, the council had agreed to leave "virtually everything" except "the Somerset County Council sign and a computer".

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The far superior iPad- and Nook-only Rosetta COURSE, by contrast, offers lessons that are identical to what's offered in the computer-based Rosetta Stone program (except more convenient: no mouse necessary).

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The amazing thing is that the whole hand-off works perfectly--except for the part where concierge can't find the computer for an hour.

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Except Flutter works on webcams, meaning it can work on any computer.

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Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group--with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty--is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.

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Again, our computer geniuses -- men and women who are not government employees and never would be except in wartime -- are better than theirs.

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