Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 02:56:00 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 05:22:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. That surely depends on the information source. For example http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-1998/jw-02-jperf-p4.html shows that it's not as bad. Now I agree that the site I mention is probably a bit biased. (although they clearly explain what they test) I had some other good sites, which compared C++ and Java (and it was not a java-only site) which came to the conclusion that the newest version (1.4.x) is about 20% slower than comparable C++ code (compiled with M$VC++, version unknown) >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. The page I posted above wants to set cookies. ;) But I don't think they're really needed in order to view the page. So you should be safe. :) >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? Well, a cookie can only contain info they already have, because the cookie is sent from the server to the client. If they only want to track my purchases, they can check their webserver log. Btw: I don't accept cookies which have a different URL than the site I requested. And I don't accept permanent cookies. (although I don't consider that a terrible problem either) Which leaves cookies coming from the current server and which are deleted when I close my browser. The only use for that is to hold session context. And for that a cookie is better suited than sticking the whole %^&&^( in the URL as a get-parameter, or hidden form fields. So it seems I'm less paranoid than you are. :)) Sargon
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