On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:05:30PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > Yeah, I think that's great. There will be people that no matter how long I > > lecture them, will still say "But...it's in JAVA!" so it's good to have an > > alternative that just says "We are fast! We are in C! We use an SQL > > database!" so that they will leave us other develops alone. > > Complaining about speed and efficiency in Java, and then going out and > implementing a C solution around a *SQL database* is madness. I am all-for > efficiency, but even in the best of cases, I have always disliked the > frequently > unnecessary overhead of a separate database, using a database for the > datastore > would be fantastically inefficient and would make a mockery of any > efficiencies > introduced elsewhere.
Yeah, and also most people would not want the overhead of constantly running a full SQL server on their boxen. > The vast majority of those who express bigotry about Java are speaking from a > position of ignorance. Sure blackdown's java is crap, we all know this, use > IBM's JRE if you care about speed, it is comparable to a C++ implementation. > As agl pointed out in a recent conversation, > network latency will likely be the bottleneck, not processor speed. Is IBM's JRE available precompiled for boxen running Linux/PPC? Or better yet, is it available in source (which isn't likely)? I couldn't get Kaffe to compile on my box and the only JRE that I could find precompiled for Linux/PPC was Sun/Blackdown. -- Travis Bemann Sendmail is still screwed up on my box. My email address is really bemann at execpc.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1682 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000805/4584d22d/attachment.pgp>
