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Re: A 21st Century Apple II?
In article
<ef2c4ee6-baf0-4175-bb21-545927439ac3@g38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
apple2freak@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> I responded with specific benchmarks using the Java 6 client because
> I think that is much more representative of what the average person
> will use in order to run Java programs.
I see that both -client and -server JITC options are included in the JRE
that comes with the SDK:
<http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/HotSpotFAQ.html#compiler_types>
I imagine the average person will use whichever optimizes performance,
unless (s)he determines performance to be irrelevant.
On Mar 7, 3:11 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Conversely, you'll be hard-pressed to find a benchmark where Java
> > > comes out ahead by more than a few percentage points.
Indeed, I often choose Java to leverage the rich, cross-platform
features of the SDK; or I might choose Ada to leverage strong type
checking; or I might choose some other language for some other reason.
I don't really worry about performance until the profiler tells me
where I've made a design flaw. Then, I'm more likely to consider an
algorithmic variation than a new language, although nothing precludes
invoking an external routine.
On the Apple II, the Java runtime isn't quite as rich, but the native
interface is good old 6502, source included.
[...]
I like the comparison sites like <http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/>
and <http://www.rosettacode.org/> to study optimized code, but I'm not
sure the results are dispositive of language choice.
--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>