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Java communities typically favor portability (and easy deployment) over what you can gain in terms of speed. A lot of libraries/frameworks actually even adverti

Java communities typically favor portability (and easy deployment) over what you can gain in terms of speed. A lot of libraries/frameworks actually even advertise themselves as "100% pure java", whereas one might expect "expensive bits optimized in C" as attractive as well (but you rarely see it).

brl 18y ago
> whereas one might expect "expensive bits optimized in C" There is no important difference in performance between C and Java according to http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
- wlievens 18y ago
  That all depends on the kind of code, of course.