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roughly 90% of the comments are from people who got a bad impression of C++ during the pre-standardization days Zawinski and Thompson are good, but they are no
by Confusion 17y ago
roughly 90% of the comments are from people who got a bad impression of C++ during the pre-standardization days
Zawinski and Thompson are good, but they are not 90% of Zawinski, Thompson, Bloch, Eich, Ingalls, Armstrong and Steele. You're completely misrepresenting the gist of the article.
The comments that really drop my jaw are the people who seem to hold up Java as a "better" C++.
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
but from its sketchy real-world performance
Oh please, don't start that flamewar with these kinds of uninformed, one sided utterances. Java performance has been more than fine for at least five years.
- allenbrunson 17y agoi'm not so sure about that. a few months ago i was working on a project that involves amazon ec2 and s3. amazon gives you a bunch of command-line utilities, written in java, to perform various stuff. every one of them takes a second or two to start up, which really annoyed the heck out of me. that certainly wouldn't have happened if they were written in c++.
- Confusion 17y agoStartup time is, IMHO, not an essential part of a 'performance', as it is usually negligible compared to the time the actual execution (often in the order of weeks) takes. But granted, for the case of small apps performing short lived tasks, JVM startup adds a relatively large amount of overhead, which can be annoying.