Touché' good call. I was about to mention that java could be faster but hadn't kept up with the facts enough to make a generalized statement :)
I just stumbled on this http://dev.saxonica.com/blog/oneil/2013/12/saxonc---saxon-for-the-cc-and-php-platforms.html Which proves Java is 2x faster than the same code in C++ :)(***) And doing XSLT at that ! (***) in case the ":)" is not obvious enough, this proves (or disproves) nothing of the sort ... but it is still a fascinating write-up and definitely in-context with the thread. Good work Saxonica !!!! From: Adam Retter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 1:26 PM To: David Lee Cc: Andrew Welch; [email protected]; ihe onwuka; jean-marc Mercier; Michael Sokolov Subject: RE: [xquery-talk] Matrix Multiplication > > Now java compilers have become so good that they can run at nearly "native" > speeds for some things ... > Whilst we are talking about avoiding generalisations. I would point out that the above statement is quite outdated, with modern JVMs and well optimised code, you can often achieve performance that is better than the equivalent C or C++ code. Just do some googling...
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