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: [snip] >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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