> I am not an anti-Java bigot. I just had some gripes with Java. Java > is fine for doing stuff like reference implementations and other stuff > which do not need very high performance.
That's silly. A little knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes and some careful coding is necessary to get excellent performance though. That's true for any language, but especially in Java. You might not even have an optimizing compiler to back you up (the -O (optimize) flag to the Sun compilers does absolutely _nothing_ since JDK 1.2 - apparently they had some problems early on and dumped it). Things like synchronization have to be done carefully as they can easily kill the performance. It's up to the programmer to be smart. -lmh _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
