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Subject: Re: Can a Programming Language Cause Engines to be Slow?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 02:22:44 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 04:31:11, Daniel Clausen wrote:
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>Btw: The speed of Java is not as bad as many believe.

A penalty of about 2x-4x has been pretty well constant for compiled Java.  Java
compilers improve, but so do C and C++ compilers.  It's 50-100 ELO.

>But somehow it stays in
>peoples heads forever, no matter what. Similarly to cookies in web-programming,
>which will stay 'dangerous' for all time.

I agree -- cookies will stay dangerous for all time. ;-)

I have them 100% turned off on all of my machines.  When a web site shoos me
away because of it, I don't feel slighted.  I'll just go somewhere else.

I guess it's like all the grocery stores here in the US that are giving you a
cheaper price on your groceries because you use a card with all your name,
address, etc. information on it.  They wouldn't be using that to track your
purchases and sell to junk lists?

-- Nah.




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