nio is slower than io. On Jul 29, 9:45 am, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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