Author: Angrim
Date: 16:10:38 11/15/02
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On November 14, 2002 at 22:31:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 14, 2002 at 20:15:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On November 14, 2002 at 13:01:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>Implementation matters a lot indeed, but functional languages >>will *never* be as fast as c(++). Also JAVA will *never* be >>as fast as c(++), no *matter* the implementation. > >Sure it can be. A java compiler that compiles directly to native machine >language has no particular problems to overcome beyond those that a C >compiler has to deal with. > As just one simple counter-example, the Java language specifies that all array accesses are bounds-checked. Thus, any code which uses arrays has to be slower in Java than in C unless you put bounds checking in your C code manually. Angrim
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