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From: Claude Schneegans
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Coldfusion and C++
>>Not true. Modern JVMs with JIT compilation techniques are as fast - or
even faster - than C++ in general.
Kmon, this is mathematically impossible.
- whatever "compilation method" is used, the code generated is the same: psudo-code for a virtual machine which must be executed by som machine code program.
- C (or C++) generates directly machine code.
>>C source code portability is achievable but it is *much* harder than
many people realize because so many platform differences exist.
Right, but if an application relies on those differences, it is because they are system dependant,
and chances are great they are not available at all in Java anyway.
>>Pointers were the single most problematic aspect of C and C++ for many
developers and were the primary source of application unreliability
This is true because C is a fully compile application.
Java is interpreted, every instruction is validated before it is executed, so pointers could be verified too.
Java could be THE solution for pointers problems, but instead of providing the advantage of pointers
together with a solution for the problem, they completely removed pointers... dumb... :-(
>>Implementing a safe virtual
machine that supports unmanaged pointers is extremely hard
Well, just managed them! Java manages everything, why not pointers?
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