ahh gotta love benchmarks. the only valid benchmark is your own application, which you've tuned. all other cases are seriously error proned or not applicable to real applications. peter
Eric VERGNAUD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: le 16/06/04 21:50, Matt Bathje à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I posted this on the struts list this morning, but it might get better > answers here. > > I was reading the stories here: > > http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45250 > http://www.kano.net/javabench/ > > Summary: > Java in server mode is faster than C++ in the benchmarks run. Java in client > mode is much more iffy, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, and sometimes > the same. > > > So my question becomes - does anybody have any experience running their > Tomcat jvm using the -server option instead of letting it default to client? > > Based on what the tester says, the only downside of running the jvm in > server mode is a longer startup time, but the Java code still beat C++ even > with the longer times, so it can't be too bad. > > So anybody have any experience/thoughts on this? > > > Thanks, > Matt Bathje > Matt, No one can really believe Java is faster than C or C++, because Java is itself written in C and C++. I haven't been through the benchmark code throroughly, but there's definitely a bias somewhere. ------------------------------- Eric VERGNAUD - JLynx Software Cutting-edge technologies and services for software companies web: http://www.jlynx.com ------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
