> On 02/09/05, Nam-Ky Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > b) You do NOT want to do numerical computations on software available >> in >> > Java byte code. >> You do not want to do heavy numerical computations with R either. Most >> statistical calculation using R requires a fraction of a second and I >> cannot see a real difference between say 0.05 second and 0.07 second. >> NKN. > > It is my understanding that the problem with Java is that it wasn't > written with serious numerical computation in mind - as far as I know > only in the latest version have Sun started to be address this issue. > The byte code for the java virtual machine has a flawed numerical > model which is not fully compliant with the IEEE754 standard - this > has nothing to do with speed of computation. Furthermore the integer > model is very restrictive when you want to work on random numbers > using bit-twiddling.
I am not sure that this is an appropriate platform to compare C++ (or C#) and Java. Besides, there are already several articles on this topic on the web. I like the BYOL idea. Like BYOB (Bring Your Own Beer), BYO Language will allow you to use the language of your choice for software development (Please see http://www.mono-project.com/Languages/). I take this oppotunity to thank Berwin, Brian, Peter and Uwe for their helpful emails. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
