Sounds like a case for NIO. On Jul 29, 5:07 pm, Alan Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/07/2010 4:27 PM, Kirk wrote: > > > Microbenchmarks are as useful as any other type of benchmarking. The > > problem is, they are very very very difficult to get right. You need to do > > a lot of work to validate the results you get from any benchmark, large or > > small. I've missed the beginning of the conversation so I never saw all of > > the code but then maybe it was never published. > > Just a bit of back fill (happy for this thread to die off now) - I had > some raw C struct like data in an array of bytes. I am trying to put > forward a case for using Java (or maybe Scala) instead of C/C++ in a > project. Performance is critical. In C/C++, one argument is you can > cast the pointeer to the array of bytes and volia! you can access all > the int's etc. Very performant. Obviously cannot do this in Java, so > was trying to work out how close I could get Java to squash this > argument (if possible). Obviously the overall application makes a big > difference too. Right now C++ is safe from a performance perspective, > Java safer from a code maintainability perspective. There is a hard > performance requirement on the project (harder than the code > maintainability requirement). > > Thanks > Alan
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