Re:My latest anti-java rant
by foldr on Sunday March 21, 2010 @01:29PM
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>Java is slow
No, it's not. Modern JVMs produce extremely fast code. For numeric calculations, there's essentially no difference in speed between Java and C. (After all, why would there be? The JVM has static type info and is emitting assembly.) This was true even in 2004, so it's really long overdue that you move on from 1995 :)
No, it's not. Modern JVMs produce extremely fast code. For numeric calculations, there's essentially no difference in speed between Java and C. (After all, why would there be? The JVM has static type info and is emitting assembly.) This was true even in 2004, so it's really long overdue that you move on from 1995 :)
http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
>If you were to write your code in something more "close to the metal"
C is close to the PDP-11; it's not particularly close to modern hardware.