Dean Roddey wrote: > Jacqueline U. Robertson wrote: > > > Dean Roddey wrote: > > >performance is kind of a limiting factor. Even with a language like C++, which very much lives towards the speed side of > > >the speed/abstraction continuum, we see that our code has performance issues. > > > Just curious - what kind of apps are you doing where the 'speed penalty' > > of Smalltalk or Java would make C++ necessary ? > > > > For me personally, its things like ray tracing and fractals. > > even 10% more CPU utilization driving the GUI takes valuable time Smalltalk is by no means slower than C++. Maybe actual implementations are not fast enough as C++ compilers. In any case, if you are doing ray tracing, none C compiler will do as well as a good assembly coder. It is the nature of the problem: only mathmatics, for which the raw CPU is built in the first place, no compiler can be smart enough to realize how to do operations in the faster order (unless you need to do loophole optimization, for which a good loophole optimizer will be the best and the compiler would be useless). -- I use CAPS to emphasize, not to yell. I take unpopular positions. This signature is copyrighted and used without permission.