On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as C/C++, and > sometimes even significantly faster.
And GCJ can be asked to compile Java to native machine code too. I think Java per se would be OK as a programming language if it were not for its ridiculously huge standard library. But rewriting Wget just as a proof of concept does not seem a particularly exciting way of spending time. Anyone is free to do so though I presume. ;-) Maciej
