Re: Some initial impressions (was: emacs vs xemacs)

[Nathan Meyers]

Michael Doherty wrote:
> 
> Works great! Thanks Rich. I'm frankly kinda amazed. Jikes seems about
> an order of magnitude faster than the jdk117_v1a compiler. Not sure how
> that's  possible but goota hand it to the guy(s) at IBM who wrote it.

Native code (Jikes) vs Java (Sun compiler) implementation. Plus some
built-in Jikes cleverness to check dependencies and avoid unneeded
compiles.

Java still has a ways to go in delivering the promised native-like
performance... and not just on Linux.

Nathan Meyers
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