On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:13:53 +0200, phil swenson <phil.swen...@gmail.com>
wrote:
This guy claims:
"Unfortunately, Java's designers didn't seem to value CPU time at all.
The language has a nasty reputation for sluggish interfaces, and its
execution speed drags well behind C++'s. Pointer aliasing or not we
are many generations of optimisers away from languages such as Java
overtaking C++ so if you need fast code C/C++ is the obvious choice."
article here:
http://slidetocode.com/2012/04/14/objective-c/
discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840861
I posted another comment. For your reference, it's below.
"Unfortunately, Java's designers didn't seem to value CPU time at all. "
Well, it's obvious that people think of (Apple) fanboism when they read
such misinformation; apart from the fact that there's no point in writing
such statements without citing some numbers or real cases.
I can tell you that I've written my last line of C++ exactly ten years
ago. In these ten years I've designed and implemented a good deal of
industrial software in different segments and never experienced
performance problems. Already in 2004, which is ages ago, I designed and
implemented a near real time system for distributing telemetry data in F1
racing - among others, Renault won two championships running that system.
It was Java 1.4 and it worked pretty well. The specs were pretty
demanding. I recall people wondering whether Java was up to the requisites
(at the time it was a reasonable doubt, not today).
I am just lucky as I can mention a publicly known project, but there are
tons of people around who daily experience excellent performance with Java
and don't feel any desire to go back to C/C++. You'd just attend a couple
of Java conferences (or at least read the slides) before publishing
uninformed statements.
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