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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by lmm on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:24AM (#16985748)
X is not faster than well written Y, for all X and Y; that's not a particularly useful comparison though. I've seen a project pick Java over C/C++ because, based on their previous experience, the memory leaks typical of C/C++ codebases were a worse performance problem than any Java overhead.
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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by hutzlibu on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:21PM (#16990890)
Well written Java is sure to be slower than well written C/C++.

Happy? ;)

But yes, the point you make, is valid, it is much harder to write C/C++ well, because of the burden of memory management. So if you lack the time or skilled people, it might make sense to choose Java out of perfomance reasons.

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