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Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]
From: crispin at novell.com (Crispin Cowan)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:48:24 -0800
Robin Sheat wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:28, Crispin Cowan wrote:It means that compromising performanceIt's not necessarily a given that runtime performance is compromised. There are situations where Java is faster than C (I've tested this on trivial things).
Here it is "bytecode vs. native code generator", not "Java vs. C." Remember, I advocated Java over C++ in the first place :) Even in the bytecode vs. native code generator contest, there are cases where each will win: * bytecode interpreters always lose; they really are just a kludge * JIT can win if it uses dynamic profiling effectively and the application is amenable to optimization for decisions that need to be evaluated at runtime * JIT can be a lose because of the latency required to JIT the code instead of compiling ahead of time So: * JIT will win if your application is long-lived, and has a lot of dynamic decision making to do, e.g. making a lot of deep object member function calls that are virtual, or just a lot of conditional branches. * Native code will win if your applications are just short-lived, because they are dispatched as children from a dispatcher process o You pat the JIT cost each time it starts o The short lifespan doesn't give dynamic profiling time to do its thing
Personally, I find the programmer time to be much better used in Java too.
No argument from me. I advocate Java, I just want a native code generator instead of bytecode. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin/ Director of Software Engineering, Novell http://novell.com Hack: adroit engineering solution to an unanticipated problem Hacker: one who is adroit at pounding round pegs into square holes
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