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The JVM is fast today after 25 years of optimization and some serious improvements in the underlying processors (even with the Moore’s law failure of maybe half
by mapgrep 6y ago
The JVM is fast today after 25 years of optimization and some serious improvements in the underlying processors (even with the Moore’s law failure of maybe half that period).
It was not fast at all when the Java hype was peaking in the late 90s. I knew a dotcom era startup that replaced a bunch of Perl with Java and my friends complained it had fewer features and was much slower.
- Apocryphon 6y agoOne wonders how fast Electron will be in 25 years, if it lasts that long.
- nalekberov 6y agoJava's selling point was portability, and did it very well, it was faster than programs written in interpreted languages, well it was and still is slightly slower than programs written in C and likes. Programs written on Electron rely solely on web technologies, I always avoid these programs, one simple chat application eats up to half a GB of memory, no I am not going to increase my machine's memory in order to run those programs.