On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:
> optimization is a tricky enough topic on the JVM anyway, varying depending > on your platform, startup params, whether or not the JVM believes it's > running on server-class hardware, how long the program has been running... > > We're also right on the cusp of an explosion in core count, so there's the > added question of whether or not a loop should be considered more > "optimised" if it can be easily run in parallel. > > I thought it was probably for the best if I didn't specify optimization as > a goal here, given how hard it is to pin down - even with a profiler! > I agree. But it gets enough traffic that it is hard to deny it exists. Seems every day somebody is posting something about how slow the for loop can be in a situation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
