sicklittlemonkey wrote:
> On Mar 5, 8:35 pm, apple2fr...{at}gmail.com wrote:
>> This is true in theory; however in practice I have yet to experience
>> any Java program running more quickly (or with less memory) than an
>> equivalent C++ program on any platform.
> 
> Experience away. I hope you'll excuse a C example:
> http://bytonic.de/html/benchmarks.html
> (Top right data cell.)

The problem with overall speed metrics is that they do not reveal
how much of the execution time is in the libraries vs. the calling
code.

The table, in fact, suggests that improvements to the graphics
library were a prime component of the speed changes, and I'm guessing
that it was not written in Java.

-michael

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