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> Things are very different today. Java has been fast for at least ten years. Except start-up time. Java still has way too long a startup time, which you noti
by stevoski 10y ago
> Things are very different today.
Java has been fast for at least ten years.
Except start-up time. Java still has way too long a startup time, which you notice in desktop apps implemented in Java.
- jeff_petersen 10y agoEven the JVM startup time isn't that bad now. It's actually a lot worse in my experience when using alternate JVM languages like Clojure and Scala.
- bluejekyll 10y agoStartup time can often be dramatically reduced if you unpack the jars. Jars are zip files. Loading a lot of jars can cause significant slow down.
- zigzigzag 10y agoHelloWorld.java runs in about 50msec on my machine. However, there are lots of crap desktop apps written in Java that don't care about startup time. You can write apps with bad startup time in any language: look at OpenOffice (C++).