From: Ryan McGovern <mcgoverp@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T23:29:06+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

Charles O Nutter wrote:
>
> Well la-dee-dah! Seriously though, there's a volume of tests and 
> benchmarks
> (for what they're worth) that show this to be true, and for 
> memory-intensive
> situations Java almost always wins because lazy memory management allows
> work to get done first, faster. Granted, Java's abstractions make it 
> easier
> to write bad code...but that's true of every language, including C.
>
> - Charles Oliver Nutter, CERTIFIED Java Developer
>
I dont doubt for simple applications and algorithms java is nearly as 
fast as C if not equivalent.  Though for larger java projects such as 
Eclipse, i've had a horrible time of it being slow and cumbersome on the 
system, and Visual Studio will run fine and be far more responsive.
I dont really know why that is it could be as simple as some bad code in 
the java gui layer that Eclipse is using.