[3597] in java-interest
Re: Java is not slow ! (was: Introduction to Java - Questions)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Niemeyer)
Fri Nov 17 02:03:24 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 23:15:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Pat Niemeyer <pat@icon-stl.net>
To: Jason Coombs <jasonc@science.org>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9511162212.AA11686@science.org>
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Jason Coombs wrote:
> Is interpreter speed the most important performance factor? Could the
> applet viewer (be it Netscape, HotJava, or other) be slowing things down?
>
> > The Java team has done a great job,
>
> I Agree. Will it be enough, though, to satisfy the performance requirements
> of the average real-world application?
Remember that Java is barely in a beta release.
NewtonScript is another byte-code interpreted language. It was sped up
by a factor 2-4 just by tweaks in the interpeter after the beta release.
Of course what we are really waiting for is dynamic compilation to
native code. Java will then run just a hair slower than other compiled code.
(Java is going to eat the world.)
Pat
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