Re: When will Java go mainstream like Python?

2010-02-25 Thread Wanja Gayk
Am 25.02.2010, 02:05 Uhr, schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro : In message , Wanja Gayk wrote: Reference counting is about the worst technique for garbage collection. It avoids the need for garbage collection. It means I can write things like contents = open(filename, "r&quo

Re: When will Java go mainstream like Python?

2010-02-24 Thread Wanja Gayk
Am 24.02.2010, 00:22 Uhr, schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro : Java - The JVM code been hacked to death by Sun engineers (optimised) Python - The PVM code has seen speed-ups in Unladen or via Pyrex.. ad-infinitum but nowhere as near to JVM Python is still faster, though. In synthetic microbenchma