Re: Announcing JGNAT public version 1.0p

[Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>]

hugin777@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> How can it be faster when it has to be
> profiled, JIT'ed and _then_ run at full speed ?
> 
> Amazing... Or maybe I have overlooked something else.
> 

There's some theory that virtual machine bytecode languages 
gain much performance advantage from modern hardware because 
of caching.  Accessing memory takes much more time than 
processing data.  

Still, on my machine, Java runs as fast or slightly faster than
compiled languages expected to be efficient only when little or no
creation/destruction of objects is going on.  When Java has to
do that, it runs many times slower than the competition.  But the
hardware is getting so fast that, for many things, you might use
jvm for a week before you even noticed that it was slower than 
anything else.  


Al