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Subject: Re: So how's Java these days? Still slow?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:11:54 05/11/02

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On May 10, 2002 at 20:59:18, Oliver Roese wrote:

>I think this comparison thourough and informative:
>http://www.rolemaker.dk/articles/evaljava/
>(Though the design of the frontpage is akward...)
>Oliver


A really nice document!  (I chuckled that his spellchecker did not flag
"Summery" when he clearly meant "Summary".)

Here's a key excerpt:

"
Today tweaked Java code is a little slower than tweaked C++ code on the average,
typically around 20-50% slower, but this may vary a lot. In some cases Java is
up to twice as fast as C++ and in some cases it up to three times slower.
Untweaked Java code is usually 2.5 – 4 times slower than untweaked C++ code but
this varies much.

Tweaking the code causes the readability of the code to be significantly reduced
and hence also the productivity of the programmer. Fortunately it is very often
only necessary to tweak very little parts of the code, since very little of the
code usually is run most of the time.
"



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