>From: "Brian C. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This is true, but my point and others here is that EFFICIENCY
>DOESN'T MATTER. Who cares if your word processor is five percent slower?
>Nobody is arguing about runtime efficiency here. But Java is an easy to
>use programming language, and it is fully object oriented. Efficiency
>mattered 10+ years ago a lot, but these days its just not as important as
>making the programmers more productive.
Server-level efficiency is the NUMBER ONE criteria for us in writing
contracts for solutions for our 400+ different locations. Considering that
some of our sole contracts run into the 100M$ ranges, that is a fair market
size. At the PC level, efficiency is critical also, but not for the reason
you might expect. Sooner or later some "PC benchmark" will be tested for
one solution vs. another, and the "slower" solution loses - even if the
users might have never noticed the difference.
Faust
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