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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <Pine.GSO.4.30.0108071538190.29788-100000@scully>, David Lee Lambert
says...
>
>On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ted Dennison wrote:
>
>> That's a bogus comparison. You are thinking of Java's propensity to create
>> interpreted code. That has nothing to do with Ada. (Although I suspect a Java
>> expert could probably accomplish it with JINI and a natively-targeted Java
>> compiler. Remember, "printf" actually has to stop and interpret the input 
..
>One could use puts() instead:

That's not the issue. My points were:
a) Java's bytecode interpretation speed issues have nothing whatsoever to do
with Ada, any more than they do C. I repeat, *nothing*.
b) If I took the most natural language Y "hello world", an expert in language X
can most likely construct a quicker version for language X (even when X=Java and
Y=C, I suspect).  If you can turn around and do the same thing with tuned C and
a dumb Java implementation, you only provide *more* evidence of this.

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