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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by praptak on Friday November 04, 2011 @11:07AM (#3196304)
"My respect for Linus just grew 10-fold!"

Why? He just bashes Java using strong language and not providing any arguments. This could get my respect if Java were some kind of sacred cow that nobody dares criticize. This is not the case AFAIK.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by alexchamberlain on Friday November 04, 2011 @02:39PM (#3197206)
I accept that this quote doesn't give his reasons. However, I have to agree with him. My reasons are that Java is slow and bloated.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by buster on Saturday November 05, 2011 @05:02AM (#3199323)
Why do so many people say Java is slow? What's slow? In fact Java compares fairly well against pretty much everything except C. It's a memory hog, but it sure isn't slow, whatever that means.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by nirbheek on Saturday November 05, 2011 @01:20PM (#3200266)
Not against JavaScript or PyPy, from what I've seen.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by buster on Saturday November 05, 2011 @03:42PM (#3200700)
Like this one http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all... ?

also interesting:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by spullara on Saturday November 05, 2011 @12:27AM (#3198922)
You must think everything but well optimized, hard to write and read C/C++ is slow and bloated then. Which is fine if that is what you are comparing it to.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make S... by godDLL on Friday November 04, 2011 @12:10PM (#3196568)
I wish I could just get away with it like that.
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