I think the real issue here is that most h.26x decoding nowadays is done with hardware support, via native APIs That's where C/C++ has a definite advantage over Java, and not in the inherent performance qualities of VM vs statically compiled code.
On 30 September 2010 14:36, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > It is at lest somewhat comforting to know that even an experience C/C+ > + developer makes plenty of pointer errors. > > The way I see it is that even with the Computer Science background and > understanding O/S memory allocation models and how C/C++ allocates > memory as well as Stack and Heap memory theory the errors still happen > because I am human and miss things sometimes. It is all good and well > when the program flow is simple enough for the allocations and > deallocations to be easy to see and in a straightforward logic. The > more complex the application gets the more complicated it becomes to > manage the memory correctly. Both feeing memory which something is > still using or not freeing it leads to problems. > > I think even someone at Sun implied or said that in an ideal world > everyone would write perfect C/C++ code but things like Java exist > because in practice it turns out that this is really really hard to > do. > > Maybe I should try Assembler just for kicks....I like pain. > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
