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Re: XML vs relational database

• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Tei <oscar.vives@g...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:21:33 -0400

Tei wrote:

> 2) As soon runtime optimization make Java faster than C++, some people 
> will switch. The people that need raw speed.


Hindsight's 20/20. That's already happened. :-)

It depends on the problem of course. Some problems are more amenable to 
compile time optimization and some to runtime optimization. These days 
sometimes Java is faster and sometimes C++ is faster. For my needs, 
they;re so close to each other either way, that it hardly matters.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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