Re: [xml-dev] Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Tei wrote:

> 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++. Fact is some problems are more amenable to the sort of 
runtime JIT optimization Java does. Others are more amenable to the sort 
of static optimization C/C++ do. Which one is faster depends on what 
sort of problem you have.

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