On Sat, 2014-12-06 at 07:33 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > Whoa. So they're basically going to rely on JIT to convert those > boxed Integers into hardware ints for performance? Sounds like I > will never consider Java for computation-heavy tasks then... > Exactly the opposite, the JVM and JIT technology is getting to the stage where boxing and hence unboxing happens less and less. For most computationally intensive tasks there will be no boxing and unboxing at all.
Currently I still have to use primitive types to get Java to be faster than C and C++, but there are hints that the next round of JIT technology and JVM improvements will make that unnecessary. Of course there are elements in the JVM-verse who think that primitive types are the only way of doing this and that relying on JVM/JIT technology is anathema. This is still a moot point, no decisions as yet. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
