On 3 March 2012 23:13, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Walter: > >> Adding in software checks for null pointers will dramatically slow things >> down. > > Define this use of "dramatically" in a more quantitative and objective way, > please. Is Java "dramatically" slower than C++/D here? > > Bye, > bearophile
Not to be too cheeky here, but since its done in hardware, and therefore no software checks are done, I'm going to say that it is infinitely slower. Since even 1 extra instruction is infinitely more than the current 0.
