From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4a36b7df69d1af90 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Announcing JGNAT public version 1.0p Date: 2000/04/10 Message-ID: <38F250E6.13D8F74B@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 609296845 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8bqd8g$sbs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8c2613$hce$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8c7fh4$25g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8c92nl$nqn$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8cak93$dtl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38EA152B.6D7A4481@earthlink.net> <1MNG4.630$n8.195854@news-east.usenetserver.com> <38ECB0CC.3B2941E2@earthlink.net> <8ckscp$nv7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8cs4ad$ft3$1@clnews.edf.fr> <8ct83j$ho3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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