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Re: Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures

• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:50:41 -0500

Tei wrote:

> If you really need raw speed C or C++ will be always faster than Java.

No, it won't. It has been proved false by counterexample that C/C++ will 
*always* be faster than Java.  On some problems, Java already is faster 
than C or C++. Fact is some problems are more amenable to the sort of 
runtime JIT optimization Java does. Others are more amenable to the sort 
of static optimization C/C++ do. Which one is faster depends on what 
sort of problem you have.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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