"Somedude" <lovelyd...@mailmetrash.com> wrote in message news:jbbglp$2cp0$1...@digitalmars.com... > > While in Java, the > compilation time is near zero.
If you're using Eclipse, in which case the cost isn't gone at all, it's simply shifted to slowed down interaction with the IDE. > The launch time of applications entirely > depends on what you do with them: if it has to open several DB > connections to initialize itself, yes it's sluggish, but that doesn't > have anything to do with the language, rather with the application. So how many hundreds of DB connections is Eclipse apparently opening upon startup? > > And JIT compilation, you don't feel it, so it doesn't matter. > Yea you do.
