-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 2011-02-18 22:47, David Murn skrev: > Is there any language slower or more resource intensive than java?
Yes, there are many, Java have is strengths and down sides, Java as any language have it's strengths and down sides. Speed in Java can be much better that C, C++ or even hand optimized Assembler. It can also and java's weak sides, for performance, is it's dependence on garbage collection. That even is proved mathematically be a more efficient way of handling memory allocations tends to do the memory handling at for the user bad times. And real time performance in almost all applications have very little with the language to do, but with the chooses of algorithms and data-storage chosen for the application. > currently, in the world), then who cares about java, why isnt it written > in optimized C or some other similarly lowish level language, rather > than java? There can be a 1000 reasons, and all valid. A good team knowing java but not c. C make to much time go into development compared to an object oriented language. C have no good api's to connect to the other services around. The bottle neck is not at all in the code for the service but in stuff around it. When is comes to error's in the code, web, net servers in java are as possible to break, using java is not a safe way to make sure the code is correct. It still need to be planned and safe for internet usage. The typical safety problems thou differ because different things are hard ans easy in the two language families. Just a few random morning thoughts. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1fdUwACgkQtbR3SXmySrdAnACgrSQlpvvBNqtT32RlIGBssqMO npcAoKrP8LY3syoJf3lKl4VdZz5yttkK =EVqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
