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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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