RE: [Mono-list] .NET 'trounces' Java

[Steve Mentzer]

You know the old saying..   "There are lies, damned lies and benchmarks".   I am not saying that the results aren't accurate, but people need to realize that there is no "silver bullet" in software development. No one platform is perfect for any situation. The Java advocates are already jumping all over this in a vain attempt to discredit the results when what they should be doing is constructing their own test suites that highlight the strengths of Java.   I personally believe that Java is the pascal of the 21st century. But then again, that is just my opinion. Great for a teaching language, but a little purist for my day-to-day needs. c# certainly isn't perfect. And the entire .net framework is strikingly similar to the java namespaces.   Above everything else, software development is still a human and largely manual process. A clueless moron can take their program, throw it through the best compiler, run it on the fastest computer in existence and still get crappy results.   Programmer competence carries much more weight than "raw platform" speed in my book.   -----Original Message----- From: G.Kumaraguru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mono-list] .NET 'trounces' Java http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27833.html   .NET significantly outperformed the J2EE version on 2,4 and 8-way machines on all three suites: the web benchmarks, TP and web services. In one case, the J2EE Pet Store couldn't handle the transactions at all.