Scala can be faster than Java

Posted by skaalf on Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:01AM
from the jto.github.io dept.

http://jto.github.io/articles/scala_is_faster_than_java/

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Re:Scala can be faster than Java by newsie on Thursday June 19, 2014 @09:04AM (#7915816)

The title is a bit of a troll. A good Scala developer will often be able to write Scala code that outperforms similar Java code. I agree with the gist of it however, that the performance is simply comparable and therefore irrelevant to the choice between the two languages.

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Re:Scala can be faster than Java by cratermoon on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:59PM (#7917090)

The compiler is much slower, though.

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Re:Scala can be faster than Java by kybernetikos on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:43PM (#7918469)

And the IDE support is far worse too.

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