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I remember Smalltalk and Lisp were pretty slow at the time and required tons of resources to run. Smalltalk and Lisp had better concepts but they fell short in
by ww520 10y ago
I remember Smalltalk and Lisp were pretty slow at the time and required tons of resources to run. Smalltalk and Lisp had better concepts but they fell short in delivering practical result.
- varjag 10y agoJava wasn't really light on resources at any point of its history either.
- ww520 10y agoJava's resource requirement fitted pretty well within the hardware capability at the time, and grew with the hardware over time. Smalltalk and Lisp were quite ahead of their time requiring way more resource than the hardware could provide at the time.
- varjag 10y agoOk which time are we talking about? In 1965, sure. In the times Java was actually around, it hardly had an edge against Common Lisp (can't comment on Smalltalk) implementations of the day by any resource metric. That's two and a half decades already.