"retard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > When comparing, you also need to understand how the JIT compiler works. > Using the Sun server VM, you need to visit each menu and use each visual > component a few times to make the VM recompile the code. After few hours > of use everything should run as fast as it can. Upgrading the JVM might > also help because there are more JIT optimizations available.
If I have to use a program written in Language-X for awhile before it stops being slow, then I'm going to feel perfectly justified in calling Language-X a slow language.
