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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: RICHARD KETTLEWELL
date: 2020-09-03 09:47:00
subject: Re: Spectre / Meltdown

Martin Gregorie  writes:
> Mayayana wrote:
>> Java, like .Net, is far slower than native compiled software.
>
> Might have been once, but current versions are pretty slick. Its a bit
> slower when its getting started and pulling in library classes from disk,
> but that its not what you'd call slow.

Mono’s CIL JIT was empirically beating GCC on computationally intensive
code a decade ago (probably by making better register allocation choices
although I didn’t delve into it deeply). No idea what the situation is
today but I’d expect them to be pretty similar.

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