Author: James Swafford
Date: 16:51:20 02/11/01
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On February 10, 2001 at 15:16:45, Angrim wrote: >On February 10, 2001 at 14:50:13, James Swafford wrote: > >>> >In general, Java does a lot of extra work to protect you from making >simple dumb mistakes that would crash a C program. Very nice for a You're arguing my point for me. The previous poster commented that there was no reason a java program shouldn't be as fast as a C program. As stated, my understanding of java is that it does a lot of behind-the-scenes work that makes it slower. Thanks for the confirmation. :-) I really don't care about the java details. -- James >beginner, or a single use program that you don't want to waste time >debugging, but it doesn't allow for the posibility of saying that you >are done debugging a module and want it to stop double checking >everything that you do. >ie. you have a "int b[64], i; for i = 8 to 15 do b[i]=1;" equivalent >java will still check that you aren't writing off the end of the array >*at run time* for each reference to b > >Angrim
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