I am with Russel here. I work mostly in JVM and .Net environments and although currently I am the opinion that there are too many VM based applications, we hardly have any performance issues.
When they do happen we are able to track them mostly to bad coding practices. JNI or P/Invoke are seldom used for performance reasons and mostly to integrate with some specific OS feature. Russel Winder Wrote: > Walter, > > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 00:17 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 11/29/2011 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > > I think it has something to do with Scala trying to be compatible with > > > Java. > > > > It has to run on the JVM, which is a large and heavy rock. > > I think only response possible to this is "bollocks". > > It may be what you believe, but that doesn't make it true as an abstract > statement. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder >
