On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 21:05:22 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
C and C++ are becoming a niche languages in distributed
computing systems.
That is quite a claim.
Even with new java feature, you'll certainly reduce java's
indirection addiction to some extent, but that won't give you
control of data layout, which is one of the highest criteria when
it comes to speed (because you fit more in cache).
Granted, when it come to distributed computing, you have many
problem to manage (network, node failing, sheduling, ...) and how
much you can feed to the CPU is one criterion amongst others.
I also concede that making thing in Java and getting them fast
enough is a much easier job than it is in C++.
