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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:15:50 -0500
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In article <Xns939F982D4A0Ewildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>When has high-level program actually outperform a well written low-level
>routine. Never has and never can when both system hardware level is the
>same.

I've written a computationally-intense Java program which beat the
same C++ program on the same platform.  I attribute this to a good JIT
compiler for Java and a lousy STL for C++.

>For one, Java like its predecessor grand-daddy token BASIC.

No, Java is more like the P-System for Pascal.

>Which JAVA calls byte-code is hardly more then tokens in BASIC.

Not so.  The source program is compiled to a virtual machine, not simply
parsed into tokens.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.

References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Kurt Koller" <kk@coinop.org>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>

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