On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, voguemaster wrote: > > Just my $0.02: IBM's implementation of the JVM is *not* optimized for > > Itanium (and probably won't be). It is optimized, however, for other 64bit > > processors such as AMD64 and Power4/5. > > > > That's a different kind of optimization. In any case, if you write your > code properly and you run your program in the correctenvironment, Java > math speed is comparable to native code. To all those people who believe > that Java is a performance hogging monster, let me burst your bubble > right here and now.
unfortunately, java indeed is a performance hog in various areas - and just by saying "it is not", you're not going to burst anyone's bubble ;) it _can_ be very close to the speed of C or C++ in various aspects, but in other aspects it is much slower. i've seen a very simple algorithm that just by translating its inner loops to C and using jni, got a performance increase of X3 - and i think this all came due to java's arrays bounds checking. i won't even mention java GUI programs. it could be that you can write a GUI program in java that'll not appear slagish (i've seen some minimalistic java applets that run quite fast) - but looking at the various GUI programs i have met so far, it looks like it is much harder to achieve this with java, then with C++ (or C). sorry - you did not burst "my bubble" just yet :P~~ -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
