Context is unnecessary if, for example, Java is unbearably slow compared to nearly everything. The only things I've seen that are slower than (aggregate of all Java apps I've seen and used) are e.g. field simulators or modal analysis simulation tools... and since they're doing a lot of hardcore math it's not unexpected.
I *am* a bit confused, however, since if I search for "Java benchmark" I get lots of pages saying something along the lines of "Java used to be slow but now it isn't." Contrairwise, I personally use a few Java applets for which I also have non-Java equivalents, and several of our competitors have products similar to ours (but with beefier processors) and run Java front ends... and in every case the Java production code is much, much slower than the non-Java code. (The other code is, variously, in PHP, mod_perl, and C.) I hear the peanut gallery waiting to say "but you can't compare different apps/implementations" - bollocks I can't. Toyotas and Fords are wildly different implementations of objects of type "car", yet it is both useful and accepted to make blanket statements about them. :-) You are welcome to disagree, but unless you plan on rewriting all the Java apps that turn out to be slower than I expect them to be based on my experiences with similar non-Java apps, you are unlikely to change my opinion. Flame away... --DTVZ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
