From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:

>>Just what rewards can I get here that I can't get from a better designed
>>language, size of executables don't matter anymore, I/O is still the drag
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> on
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>>everything so raw execution speed doesn't interest me, object oriented can
>>be done in a LOT of other languages, code reuse can be done better in
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> other
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>>languages.  For OS stuff, there sure have been a lot of exploits to think
>>that C++ is really where we want to go for secure computing...
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>
> Raw execution speed should interest you.

first ime or n'th time? If n'th time then a good jvm e.g. the ibm/weblogic
one or the hotspot one is rapid.

> Not every app is writing to a
> database. A bit more attention to speed, efficiency and accuracy would
> remove a lot of bugs and structural issues, not to mention dependencies.

Which goes for every language. In java the main overhead is object creation
& destuction but there are so many object caches around nowaday...

Adam

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