on 6/26/03 12:01 PM Christopher Oliver wrote:
Another aspect not always noticed is the speed of the compiler. Because Java compilers don't perform any compile-time optimizations, they are significantly faster than C++ compilers. This is very important when dealing with very large codebases.
Of course, Python doesn't get compiled at all, and I've heard it argued that interpreted languages will be used exclusively in the future with very large code bases for that very reason.
hmmm, compilation is a highly parallelizable task so I don't really buy this as a valid argument against compiled languages.
Agreed, it is a valid argument against that particular compiler though.
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