On 20/04/2008, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 20 April 2008 14:50:25 Jon Harrop wrote: > > Running the SciMark benchmark on my 32-bit WinXP Athlon64 X2 4400+ 2Gb RAM > > machine: > > > > Sun JDK 6: 385 > > .NET 3.5: 367 > > > > Here .NET is 5% slower than the JVM. > > > I hadn't actually noticed that the .NET port of SciMark was written by a Java > programmer who had crippled it by inserting unnecessary locks in the code. > Removing these locks for a fairer comparison, I get: > > Sun JDK 6: 385 > .NET 3.5: 396 > > So .NET is not slower at all. >
As a historical note, my understanding was that it was a Microsoft JVM that introduced JIT and associated performance improvements in a JVM platform. I think it's safe to say that there are some smart guys at Redmond working on those sorts of technologies. Cheers, James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
