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

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> That only shows they had lousy memory management 
> facilities... and ignores the fact that the Java programmers 
> had teams of people at Sun or elsewhere helping them by 
> working on the memory management instead...

No, it highlights the fact that when you write in Java there are teams of
people everywhere helping you. That's why you get faster development, and
that's why you can spend your time thinking about better algorithms rather
than debugging the plumbing. That's what object-oriented software was
designed to achieve, and it works.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/