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Cliff Click, a smart man in whom I see many admirable qualities, than whom there are few more complete experts on the JVM, gave a tech talk at Facebook about ho
by kmavm 12y ago
Cliff Click, a smart man in whom I see many admirable qualities, than whom there are few more complete experts on the JVM, gave a tech talk at Facebook about how Java is faster than C++ just a few months ago. Tons of perfectly smart engineers sat and took it seriously. Much of the content was a rehash of this older discussion: http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2009-09-06-java-vs-c-performanceagain http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2009-09-06-java-vs-c-p...
There are plenty of serious, technically deep people trying to convince their colleagues that Java is as fast as C.
- frik 12y agoI know a professor who worked on HotSpot Java VM in early 2000s. He is a smart man, but he always makes these false claims how Java will be as fast as C++ the next years. He was the boss of a local Oracle Labs company, though he left that company recently and is now an C# advocate and make similar claims in favor of MS. Such persons are quite annoying as they try to influence a lot of students.
- puppetmaster3 12y agoAgree. Some kind of group hope, a part of issue w/ the Java lang. Data points in the other direction: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/java.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/java.php
- igouy 12y ago"Sieve of Erathosthenes"