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Re: Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures

• From: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:29:42 +0100

On 3/1/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...> wrote:
> 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.

I agree. I will not be surprised If there are problems where Java with
that runtime JIT optimizations thing can be faster.

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  • Re: Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures
    • From: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>
  • Re: Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>