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I said - "You can rely on the results." Please say what you mean by "a language is faster than another". Please say what in The Java™ Language Specification t
by igouy 14y ago
I said - "You can rely on the results."
Please say what you mean by "a language is faster than another".
Please say what in The Java™ Language Specification tells us that "language is faster than another."
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html
- pbiggar 14y agoExactly. You can't use the results to say that one language is faster than another. It doesn't even make sense. (That's the context of the conversation, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4851781 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4851781)
- igouy 14y ago>> You can't use the results to say that... << That's a different claim. >> It doesn't even make sense << That depends on what `notJim` meant by "to compare speeds of programming languages". `notJim` might have thought that everyone would understand he was talking about particular language implementations and particular tasks and particular programs.