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Re:Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009) by tsimionescu on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:48AM (#29700413)
As does dynamic linking, which is perfectly equivalent.
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Re:Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009) by runeks on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:14AM (#29701861)
True, but that doesn’t make it better.
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Re:Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009) by tsimionescu on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:24PM (#29705139)
Well, there are 0 languages that don't support dynamic linking, so I don't see why we would single out Java.
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Re:Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009) by runeks on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:07AM (#29711569)
Dynamic linking is not a language feature, it’s a feature of the operating system. If we’re talking about dynamic loading, there are plenty of languages that don’t support this natively, but only through its C bindings (e.g. Haskell).
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