[3565] in java-interest
Java is not slow ! (was: Introduction to Java - Questions)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anselm Baird_smith)
Thu Nov 16 06:22:52 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:48:39 +0100
From: Anselm Baird_smith <Anselm.Baird_Smith@inria.fr>
To: alfv@xetron2.xetron.com (Alfonse Thinh Vu)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <9511101705.AA03956@xetron2.xetron.com>
Reply-To: Anselm Baird-Smith <Anselm.BairdSmith@inria.fr>
Alfonse Thinh Vu writes:
> Hi,
> (4) Is there any report/review about Java, esp comparing it with C/C++? I *heard* that the interpreter is *very* slow. Is it? If portability is not of concern, how about the compiler?
Lots of people have been arguing about Java slowness. Well, I don't
think it is fare to just say "Java is slow". Has anyone benchmark Java
against other interpreters ? The raw benchmarks I have done indicated
that the Java interpreter (in its current beta state) is one of the
fastest I know of: it is, for sure, faster than any Scheme interpreter
I know, and a little slower than Caml, which is known to be "the"
fastest interpreter.
I don't want to give my numbers here, since the bench I used may
appear as too simple. At least from my point of view, they do indicate
that Java is *not* slow (than all this discussion depends of what you
think slow means).
The Java team has done a great job,
Anselm.
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