Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 06:53:29 08/13/04
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On August 13, 2004 at 05:10:59, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >No, you can't. C is the language closest to assembly level, and so can be beaten >only by assembly code. Just like I said, you define C to be faster, and then "prove" that it is faster. Begging the question, a logical fallacy. You say C can only be beaten by assembly code. Never heard of Fortran? How about OCaml? Are you that closed minded that you can't see how another language could make guarentees that would allow the code to be optimized better than a C program? >Java on the other hand doesn't compile to native machine >code, and uses bytecode instead, so it cannot be possiby faster than C. In theory, JIT compilers can produce faster code because they have more information to use at runtime. Maybe it will never happen in practice, but your statement that it "it cannot be possiby faster than C" is clearly not theoretically true, because it is "possible".
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