Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries [Thread Prev] >Thread Next - Re: [xml-dev] Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures RE: [xml-dev] Speed in Languages and Browser ArchitecturesTo: "'Elliotte Harold'" <elharo@-------.---.--->,"'Tei'" <oscar.vives@-----.---> Date: 3/1/2007 7:13:00 PM > > > If you really need raw speed C or C++ will be always faster > than Java. > > No, it won't. It has been proved false by counterexample that > C/C++ will > *always* be faster than Java. On some problems, Java already > is faster than C or C++. And even if it were true in theory, it wouldn't be true in practice. The XSLT experience was that it took three or four times as long to produce a working processor in C as in Java, and while the C developers were debugging their memory management, the Java developers were devising* new optimizations. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ (devizing? doesn't look right. American spelling confuses me.) | ||||||
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