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Re: Java is not slow ! (was: Introduction to Java - Questions)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Lindholm)
Thu Nov 16 23:26:19 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 18:29:45 -0800
From: lindholm@scndprsn.eng.sun.com (Tim Lindholm)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, jasonc@science.org
Eliding a heck of a lot:
> Will it be enough, though, to satisfy the performance requirements
> of the average real-world application?
One thing it is safe to say is that the design has not "topped out" in
the current implementation. There are plenty of ways to improve perfor-
mance. Some of that is incremental, by tightening up the current VM
interpreter. Other things like JIT are more work but a bigger win. I
think it's right to focus on adequacy for needs rather than something
more abstract, and think that even the current far-from-optimal system
has been surprising in what it can do. Future systems can clearly be
much better and satisfy more needs.
> Jason Coombs
> jasonc@science.org
-- Tim
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