On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:19:18AM +0530, Navin Kabra wrote: > > Nope. With JIT compilation, a JVM can actually beat C++
This seems a controversial statement to make. I have seen this come up time and again at various blog posts all trying convince one thing over the other. > Overall, though, from the shootout page, it looks like Java is comparable to > C/C++ in many cases, and a little slower in some cases. Python, on the other > hand, is 10x to 30x slower in most cases... So my point still stands It did it show that Java is 2x slower than C++ most of times while Python 10x slower or more. This was a observation across the tests with some exceptions. When I said about Python vs Java, I was specifically thinking about an Web server designed in a asynchronous, multi-threaded (read Twisted) way, some earlier research made me think that Java performance, with the frills required, would be comparable, but strictly speaking, I do not know, as I did not write the program in Java and Python do the comparison. Programmer's area of expertise helped here more with the choice. :) -- Senthil Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
