Some stupid questions

[Another rookie]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in
news:9v5g8b09pq at enews4.newsguy.com: 


> 
> In both cases, of course, there will be a "hefty" runtime (in a Java
> jar, or as Windows DLL's, etc) that your "stand-alone" applications
> will have to carry -- just as if they were written in any other
> language requiring significant runtime support, such as Visual Basic.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
Do u mean that my executable will be slow?