borud

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   by borud 18y ago

   I wasn't talking about J2ME. In my opinion J2ME is utterly pointless.
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   by borud 18y ago

   I live in Norway. Most people here drive stick-shifts. I can guarantee you that the vast majority of people driving stick-shifts have no idea what synchro rings are, nor would they be able to point them out if you cracked a gearbox open a
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   by borud 18y ago

   More often than not it is not the language that decides the performance of a system, but the ability of the programmer to come up with sensible designs. This becomes even more important as parallel and computing becomes more important. Des
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   by borud 18y ago

   By today's standards, your surveillance solution would qualify as an embedded solution and a fairly resource constrained one at that. It would make sense to use C or C++ in that situation: you can afford to spent a lot of effort on a fair
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   by borud 18y ago

   The main difference being that finding the memory leaks in Java, or rather: unintentional object retention, is far simpler than in most C++ environments.