Re: A 21st Century Apple II?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <gp2v0k$2moc$1@news.ett.com.ua>, JB <jasonb19xx@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

[...]
> I haven't read the entire thread, but it appears to me to be a central 
> part of his argument that C++ is faster than Java.  Unless I missed 
> something obvious, that appears to be supported by the benchmarks at 
> the language shootout web site if you look at them in aggregate.

The results at <http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/> show only that 
language X is <faster|slower> than language Y for some comparable pair 
of benchmark programs. These results do not support a claim that "X is 
faster than Y" in general. Numerous other factors may shift the balance 
completely: project size, time-to-market, platform constraints, 
availability of suitable libraries, developer experience, etc.

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John B. Matthews
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