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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

ASM = fastest
C = easy to code and fast
Java = easy to bloat and slow
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D1st0rt · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:34 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I think the safety and ease of writing of a language is inversely proportional to the speed, which makes sense because there's extra stuff it has to do.
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Dr Brain · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:37 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Actually, I'd say the relation is logarithmic rather than direct.

A Java application might be 25 times easier to code and extend than an assembly application, but it's certainly not 25 times slower. It's more like 2-3 times slower.
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D1st0rt · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:41 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I stand corrected

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Ya right. Maybe a java app that uses some ASM component to do EVERYTHING is 2-3 times slower. But anything meaty (ie: a real app) is going to be more than an order of magnitude slower.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

it's not like people make OSs with their existing employees anymore, they buy new people with new ideas to do it for them