Hi Doug, > I guess we need a definition of "good performance" here. Languages > with garbage collectors are not known for exceptional performance. Well, I am in the camp that use C variants are best for serious simulation as it factors out the uncertainties of garbage collection and bytecodes interpreters/JITs. But, given that Java is so popular, and that a common (but shallow) motive for its use is to make it easy to show customers simulations, then the possibility of a truly dynamic language that is embedded in a browser seems like an interesting step forward for demos or small scale simulations.
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